Mullvad Leta appears to have been updated to only require that the search come from a Mullvad VPN IP address instead of requiring that a valid account number be entered. As it was made on the basis that searches could be tied to individual Mullvad accounts, does this change affect the current Mullva…

I will mark as approved because we definitely should remove this paragraph. Whether we should add it as a search engine on the search engines page should be a separate topic. However, I suspect Mullvad would not really appreciate us recommending it generally since it still feels like a perk for Mul…

[image] BionicBison: does this change affect the current Mullvad Leta anti-recommendation? Probably yes. [image] BionicBison: is correlation still a concern simply due to the fact that Mullvad controls both services? Probably. I mean, I guess so.

Hm, that is a neat update (i.e. definitely what they should’ve done in the first place). It’s technically still the same problem as before though, with the same entity controlling your entry into the network and having access to your search queries simultaneously. I don’t think Mullvad is correlati…

Neat change. I was not comfortable putting my account number every time I want to do a quick search.

I don’t know if this was previously mentioned but you can use Mullvad through Tailscale AND use Leta now. This eliminates one of the downsides of using Mullvad through Tailscale.

I don’t think Mullvad is correlating this information (like they weren’t before either), but there’s also no technical barriers in place to stop them either I don’t understand the issue. How is there a technical barrier to Mullvad knowing what I search when I use its VPN, browser, but not its sea…

Because of how HTTPS works, all Mullvad can see is that you accessed DuckDuckGo (so everything after the .com is hidden, same with any internet service provider in fact). Using their browser shouldn’t add any trust to this extent, as it is open-source and you can verify the fact that it’s not sendin…

Thank you, I did not know about HTTPS. Now I’m almost wondering if VPN is overkill…

ISPs, governments, and network administrators can still use information from your traffic based on just the site URL

True. Mullvad subscription = Renewed.

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Pinging @jonah since he had the most to say on this topic previously (in this thread).

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