The article says: "The problem of aiming to be a privacy focused service means a high level of scrutiny is required. We are not talking about meme providers like NordVPN here; we are talking about a company who needs to do better."
So he's claiming that Mullvad gets things right that other providers get wrong, but they're still missing a critical step.
At the end: "All in all, Mullvad VPN appears to have put expanding the number of locations over user privacy. That points to a bigger problem in the VPN industry. That is a lack of a perfect provider. Mullvad VPN has multiple hops available but AzireVPN chooses their upstream carefully, runs everything from RAM and uses a custom made TPM-Level Rootkit that blocks common network monitoring features in Linux but does not offer real Multi-hop (Only though Socks5 proxy)."
So every problem has a solution, but no VPN is offering all of them. But I suspect that's because VPNs are mainly for downloading movies and shitposting on the internet.
>VPNs are mainly for downloading movies and shitposting on the internet.
or not giving your ISP a list of which websites you visited when in a situation where you could only get internet by agreeing to allow the ISP to analyze your traffic and sell the result
or to avoid regional legal restrictions which are not on the level of "if you are found out you have major problems" like non GDPR compliant US sites blocking EU users and you are from the US on holiday in the EU (most such sites are very US-local specific)
or to avoid doggy price differences depending on from where you buy something
The whole article is theoretical in nature (and light in substance). This is probably just who the author wanted to sign up for, then they discovered the common caveat of all VPN providers.
So he's claiming that Mullvad gets things right that other providers get wrong, but they're still missing a critical step.
At the end: "All in all, Mullvad VPN appears to have put expanding the number of locations over user privacy. That points to a bigger problem in the VPN industry. That is a lack of a perfect provider. Mullvad VPN has multiple hops available but AzireVPN chooses their upstream carefully, runs everything from RAM and uses a custom made TPM-Level Rootkit that blocks common network monitoring features in Linux but does not offer real Multi-hop (Only though Socks5 proxy)."
So every problem has a solution, but no VPN is offering all of them. But I suspect that's because VPNs are mainly for downloading movies and shitposting on the internet.