# Remove Mullvad from list of recommended DNS resolvers **URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-mullvad-from-list-of-recommended-dns-resolvers/40453 **Category:** Tool Suggestions **Tags:** completed **Created:** 2026-09-03T16:48:27Z **Posts:** 6 ## Post 1 by @privacy.slouchy — 2026-09-03T16:48:27Z ### Why should this tool be removed? As discussed [here](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead), Mulvad is shutting down their public DNS servers & encouraging their users to transition to Quad9 While the EOL is listed as this November, I feel it should be promptly removed from [PG’s list of recommended encrypted DNS resolvers](https://www.privacyguides.org/en/dns/#recommended-providers), such as to avoid encouraging users to build a network stack around a DNS tool that will cease to exist by year’s end --- ## Post 2 by @fria — 2026-09-03T18:02:43Z > > > List of changes proposed in this PR: > > - Removed Mullvad's encrypted DNS from t…he recommended providers as it's being [discontinued](https://mullvad.net/en/blog/shutting-down-our-public-encrypted-dns-servers-and-sponsoring-quad9-instead). > > relevant discussion: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/remove-mulvad-from-pg-s-public-dns-resolver-recommendations/40453 I made a PR --- ## Post 3 by @ph00lt0 — 2026-09-03T19:48:35Z Approved and merged. Marking as solved. --- ## Post 4 by @privacy.slouchy — 2026-09-03T20:03:50Z Why is it still listed on the site? Push to prod! --- ## Post 5 by @ph00lt0 — 2026-09-03T21:09:03Z We work with releases. So it will be in the next release. --- ## Post 6 by @any1 — 2026-09-03T21:12:20Z It shuts down in 2 months, so it isn’t anything that needs to be pushed immediately. --- ## Post 7 by @fria — 2026-09-03T21:20:16Z