Stumbled across this site by direction to their tools, then looked at the actual top 10 for 2022 link and found mullvad not even considered among the top 10. What could be the explanation of this, other than the site’s own assessment:
"Mullvad
Overall Rating: 8.1
What we don’t like: Mullvad VPN is simply not good enough at bypassing geo-restrictions. It can’t unblock many streaming platforms, and it won’t work in high-censorship countries."
The fact they can’t get those affiliate dollars affects their “top rating”
so such crap sites are not even remotely unbiased.
Most of these are paid reviews, they put affiliate links in the top to generate revenue from naive people. Never base your research on random review sites, a lot of these are unethical and think first about money.
Because 1) those links are usually sponsored or uses affiliate links by some vpn companies to influence ratings, and Mullvad doesn’t do that, and 2) that’s not the focus of Mullvad. Where Mullvad shines is a privacy-first model that ensures your traffic cannot be easily tied to you as a person through Mullvad as an entity, not bypassing geo restrictions or trying to hide the fact that you are using a VPN. As such, servers are only placed in locations Mullvad can be certain the risk of compromise by a malicious actor or government is very limited, which also limits the ability to mask VPN usage or bypass restrictions, though the bridge function as well as using openvpn instead of wireshark can help bypass censorship.
Generally whenever I searched for the best VPN these types of rating websites never mentiones Mullvad, heck, not even Proton was on there sometimes which is a pretty solid alternative and more popular, the only ones i saw was Nord, Express, Surfshark and so on which tells me that the majority of these websites are paid either directly or through affiliate links
The only real requirement to host a VPN rating website is to have fingers.
“It can’t unblock many streaming platforms”
there you have it. dont buy it for Netflix
Most of those review sites are just scammy, they all make money from affiliate links.
Wouldn’t touch any of that trash they rate as “top” providers
because its a Affiliate spam blog.
Best security nord vpn? lol no.
Best Overall express VPN while owned by kape ? wtf.
its the affiliate money speaking.
A lot of vpn review sites are also owned by companies running one or more vpn services. So yeah, dont bother with that.
Don’t ever trust a site with a name like “top10vpn”.
Also, anyone operating a VPN company in freedom-hating countries like China and Russia is compelled to cooperate with those governments in spying on users, and Mullvad refuses to do that.
Also, Mullvad is so popular that streamers like Netflix do spend a lot of time figuring out how to block it.
Stop reading bs websites like these. Mullvad is among the very best vpn to use.
Because mullvad doesn’t pay anybody off. Same reason they don’t go on sale, because they don’t need to. Those affiliate sites are scams, they only exist to make money for whoever operates them.
Consumer reports rates Mullvad as most preferred option for overall services, not selling your info, and transparency with their priority on privacy.
On top of the biases the others have listed, the quote does have a bit of truth to it. Mullvad isnt the best at bypassing geolocks on streaming services. In my experience things like disney+ will block you if you are using a vpn. This feature can be very importent for people, but its also not mullvads purpose.
I love Mullvad. Works great on a Mac. Anything posted about VPN reviews/ratings is pure garbage, infested with affiliate and referrals schemes.
Theyd change their mind if mullvad offered an affiliate program.
I use Mullvad, one of the three VPNs (Nord & Proton being the other two) that I use. I admit it’s a good VPN and low the anonymity of signup it offers. However on WireGuard it has the slowest of the three services. I have have tried different servers and the result is always the same. One of the reason that reviews might rate it lower, might have to do with speed!
I have read people claiming it to get better speeds than NordVPN & Proton, and I’m sure they do. But in my case, possibly with my location and ISP … nope.
Eh. I use my own senses, and they tell me I’m using a quality service.
Could be a couple of things? Could be sponsorship. Could also just be that the people running that site value watching Murrican Netflix as the most valuable part of a VPN? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Either way, either Mullvad is for you or it’s not. A lot of it is going to be subjective and lay on whoever you end up trusting with your data the most. Or what you want for features. Especially if it’s just to bypass geo stuff.