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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Anyone pro-Mullvad that can explain to me how it's better than PIA?

To my knowledge, which may be wrong, PIA has faster speeds and is also entirely RAM-based.

That said...I'd gladly switch if that's untrue and Mullvad is better. On the outset, it sounds like Mullvad triggers search engine captchas less, which would be a nice win.

edit: Well, you all convinced me. Made the switch.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

PIA and Mullvad should have equal speeds because they both have 10gbps servers and wireguard. Both PIA and Mullvad use ram-only servers exclusively. As for search engine captchas, I never get them with Mullvad. The main issue with PIA is that they were bought by a questionable company that previously developed adware. You can read about that here. Personally, I would never use a privacy tool that is owned by an ad company, even if they claim to have changed. I used them up until the acquisition, then switched and have been extremely happy with Mullvad.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PIA is also a US based company

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just a bad juju acronymn.

Pain in the ass, CIA.

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