Mullvad VPN

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Zoda_Popinski on 2025-06-16 08:53:16.

I've been using Mullvad for ages (close to a decade soon) and never had an issue until sometime last year when I noticed that Youtube and Reddit (primarily, but other big sites as well) blocked most Mullvad IPs unless you were logged in to your Youtube/Reddit/etc account. Which is an issue for me since I use NewPipe for Youtube.

You have to do a lot of IP switching before you can find one that works so I gone so far that I disable the VPN sometimes for NewPipe on my phone.

I figured that the big tech companies where just having a crack down on VPN IPs and that's just the world I was living in now.

But since I already pay for Proton mail I figured I'd check out if there is a difference with their VPN. And I had no issues viewing Youtube with NewPipe, even with Proton's free VPN where I must assume the IP is flagged as a VPN all over the place.

Anyone can figure out why that's the case? I don't know enough about networking, but for example, Proton blocks P2P unless you pick a specific server. With Mullvad it treats every server as a normal server. So there must be something different between Proton and Mullvad general setup?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/rm-rf-rm on 2025-06-16 01:08:43.

Had no idea they had the funds to afford getting such ads out in premium locations in the SF Bay Area. Its a tell tale sign of profit maximization or at least that is the fear. And with that brings risk of the security of the service being compromised in some way like data logging etc.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SmallPresentation960 on 2025-06-15 13:31:01.

Hi everyone. I am getting into home server and networking, and so a total noob when it comes to these things. But I am slowly learning.

I have a server running Ubuntu, and I am able to access it on other local machines with SSH. I have installed and activated Mullvad with wireguard, and it is running fine.

Three questions I hope you can help me with. I have tried to find solutions without luck.

1: How can I enable the possibility to access the server via SSH externally through the internett? Just like Amazon AWS or Google cloud? The server is completely empty by the way, so no files can be compromised. It is for learning and practise at this stage.

2: When activating Mullvad I could not use the name @raspberrypi.local, but had to use the IP-address. How come this is the case?

1. To be able to use SSH locally after activating Mullvad, I had to enter “mullvad lan set allow”. What is it with this commando that enables SSH locally again?

Thanks in advanced for your help. I would also appreciate links to resources for best practises, learning networks and servers. I am currently going through https://linuxupskillchallenge.org/01/

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/clattygobshite on 2025-06-15 11:16:36.

I use Mullvad VPN on a grapheneOS device and run the VPN pretty much constantly. I also use Newpipe as my YouTube client, which conflicts with the VPN and can't play videos. I have set up Mullvad split tunneling specifically for Newpipe.

Now, are there any benefits of setting Mullvad DNS in the device's network settings or does that conflict somehow with the VPN?

My thought is: If I set up DNS in the device network settings, will it only be used for non-VPN connections automatically? I have disabled DNS in the VPN itself, following the documentation on the Mullvad website.

Quote from Mullvad website: "This service is primarily meant to be used when you are disconnected from our VPN service, or on devices where it's not possible or desirable to connect to the VPN. When you are already connected to our VPN service the security benefits of using encrypted DNS is negligible and it will always be slower than using the DNS resolver on the VPN server that you are connected to."

Thanks in advance for your help.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/As1an31nst31n on 2025-06-15 10:58:31.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/R-deadmemes on 2025-06-15 09:21:02.

Are there any servers that work in china currently? All the threads from 3 months ago dont work for me, it just says connecting but never actually connects

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/TheDr3bb2 on 2025-06-14 17:46:25.

Original Title: My vpn says it's connected to Dallas where I want it to, but when I go on social media or YouTube or whatever it's clear that I'm connected to India. I get India ads and content. Anyone else have this problem?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-06-14 07:12:23.

So, in a university network with captive portal they seem to block Wireguard and Shadowsocks just fine, Wireguard can only operate under UDP over TCP obfuscation, which, as you know it's so slow.

For the first time today I wanted to give OpenVPN a try, it didn't work as Wireguard, but enabling OpenVPN bridges, and selecting a bridge server let me connect with a better and stable speed (with UDP over TCP, it's not stable at all, speedtest can even fail randomly in the middle, or any other process)

So, how do you retire OpenVPN while not providing a solution like this under Wireguard?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/newtonian_dildo on 2025-06-13 15:59:20.

I often use mullvad for work in order to check for open ports on clients public firewalls. In the last few months I've noticed that my scans are no longer completing if I run a full scan (nmap -Pn -p- [ip address]). Mullvad will say it's connected, but I can reach anything until I reset the connection.

Anyone else having this issue?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/slavebob on 2025-06-13 15:37:35.

i read through previous posts and i can connect but reddit and youtube continue to fail to load…

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Jaded_Orange_6252 on 2025-06-13 14:27:15.

What to do?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Intelligent-Stone on 2025-06-13 07:20:16.

I'm connected to a network with captive portal, on my phone the Mullvad connection using Shadowsocks is just fine, but on laptop it never gets connected to the Mullvad with Shadowsocks being enabled. I'm on 2025.7-beta1 (because there is a BSOD problem in 2025.5 and I have to use beta until next release) so any help? Currently UDP over TCP lets me connect to the Mullvad, but you know how slow it is.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Horror-Repair-7328 on 2025-06-13 02:52:21.

Started having issues attempting to connect to any VPN. Would just say unable to block network traffic and ask me to report the issue.

Tried messing with WireGuard, Open, etc. to no avail. Same issue. Lockdown mode was off. Was going to just uninstall and reinstall but the uninstaller doesn't work now either. Says 'Uninstallation Aborted' 'Uninstall was not completed successfully'.

Used an uninstall tool called geek to force remove it and its registry entry, then tried to reinstall. Reinstall says mullvad is running and to close it, its not running and when I force close 'it' (which is just the installer, actual program isnt really running), it just stops the install obviously. When I say 'okay', it continues the install for a moment, then pops up with 'Failed to remove driver: error 0x5', when I click 'Ok' on that, it hangs there and does nothing.

Mullvad icon appears on desktop at this point, but its not functioning, and installer never completes. Just says please wait and hangs near the end forever.

This is the entire process as far as I know. Not sure what I did differently or how I broke it. Running these things as admin doesn't help either.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/c419331 on 2025-06-12 17:50:25.

"Hi,

I was hoping you would stop posting on Reddit and fix it yourself :-)

...

Stefan"

So we now have to pay them to use their service AND fix their app? Sounds like they have run out of chatgpt fixes.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/John_From_The_IRS on 2025-06-11 19:09:24.

Hi! When I choose any country through mullvad relay set location ____, then run mullvad connect, I get no network connection. I try mullvad status and am always stuck on connecting. Every once in a while it will try to switch servers, but it is never able to connect. Any ideas on how to troubleshoot this?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SunzLight on 2025-06-11 13:42:29.

Why, even though IPv6 is off in settings, its always on in the network adapter settings? (it creates new one every time mullvad connects to a server)

The IPv6 doesn't seem to be on but an IPv6 address is created, and I had a software bind to that IPv6 address!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/SuburbNacho on 2025-06-11 05:27:01.

Running Android 15 on a Pixel with GOS where I have Mullvad Beta installed for me to disable IPv6, as this caused several apps not to work when enabled. The mullvad app draws ~56% of my battery. Can this be reduced in any way, or do I have to live with it?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/LuckyBlackKnight on 2025-06-10 23:15:58.

Hello, I’m attempting to set up a PLEX server and am nearing completion but I would like to make it so that only qbittorrent traffic goes through the vpn, I want everything else to go through my normal network. How do I go about doing this, I tried using openvpn and I get a connection error any help?(im using windows)

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Trius6 on 2025-06-10 21:17:14.

Hi I just paid my first month of mullvad with a Google Play card, is this risky?

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/coso234837 on 2025-06-10 19:21:46.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/whisp8 on 2025-06-10 18:14:14.

We get it. You saw your favorite VPN provider in real life. They put up an ad somewhere and you saw it. That’s cool. You don’t need to post on Reddit about it.

Almost 50% of the posts on this forum are just this and it’s ruining the content and community.

Please just think about it.

-A Mullvad fan who doesn’t want to unfollow.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/5redie8 on 2025-06-10 00:41:59.

Hoping someone here has seen this before.

I only noticed this in the past couple weeks, but every time I enable Mullvad on my phone (Motorola Razr Ultra) it completely blocks calls coming in or going out. I've split tunneled every relevant system app I could find, disabled the DNS filters, tried a million different servers, and no luck.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this? I'm on AT&T if it helps.

Help!!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/FroAwayAccxd on 2025-06-09 20:23:53.

Anyone else experiencing like 3 disconnects every hour ? Somehow the apps on split tunneling are also affected. I had just renewed my subscription as well. This shit is slowly becoming unusable.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/skedaddle7441 on 2025-06-09 18:18:47.

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/amixingstandpoint180 on 2025-06-09 15:00:59.

I cannot find this feature on the iOS app, is it built in or is this only a desktop feature?