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Do you have a source that shows that popular VPN providers such as Mullvad or NordVPN actually sell your residential internet to third parties? That's a bold claim, but pretty scary if true.




yes, search for NordVPN vs Luminatti (guys behind Holla VPN) scandal: "nordvpn luminati lawsuit patent". Basically Luminatti, now known as bright data, reached out to NordVPN in order to utilise their user's internet as residential proxy nodes. NordVPN thought otherwise and created their own network instead (Oxylabs if I'm not mistaken). They are still in patent wars I believe.

I don't know anything bad about Mullvad! That being said I, as a small business owner in this space, will not use any of them, ever. I know it sounds like a "yeah right" because I sell the services but I know better.


> That being said I, as a small business owner in this space, will not use any of them, ever. I know it sounds like a "yeah right" because I sell the services but I know better.

If you weren't you, would you trust your service?


> I don't know anything bad about Mullvad!

Is it even possible for them to do something like this for people who just use the OpenVPN/Wireguard configs and don't install an app?


I mean can they really even if you're using off the shelf client software like plain OpenVPN?

maybe, harder tho and they will refuse to do so because that client install is close to malware on some providers. That's why we only hand out the config and instruct the user to install the official app.



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