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Mullvad plans to remove support for OpenVPN in little over a year, on 2026-01-15 (mullvad.net)

submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Support will be removed on both client and server side.

The process of removing OpenVPN from our app starts today and may be completed much earlier.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 days ago (3 children)

If wire guard is just bettr then I don't see any reason to suport OpenVPN anyway.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 days ago

Legacy devices with OpenVPN support only.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

i can't get wire guard to work on my home network so it is not better for me

edit: to be fair my internet connection is being tapped and recorded by law enforcement so i am assuming that is the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

How are you trying to using WG? I had issues with wg quick up or whatever it is, not bothered to check, but adding wireguard connections as NetworkManager interfaces works flawlessly for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Is that with any vpn provider? or hosting your own? And that is kind of a shame I guess you just won't be able to use Mullvad vpn, good thing there are heaps of other options.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

only hear about protonvpn

heap?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I can't get WG to work in Qubes. OpenVPN just works

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's kind of weird, because the reason why I never bothered with (selfhosted) VPNs before Wireguard was because it was the first one that just worked. Granted, due to its nature, you don't get a lot of feedback when things don't work, but it's so simple in principle that there's not a lot that can go wrong. For external VPNs like this, it should just be: Load config, double-check, done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Now do it on an obscure router firmware