Mullvad - June 2023, the third audit. We’d also like an update, but it has completed a number of other security audits since
Oh, I can feel mullvads policy in that
articleopinion, especially since Mullvad too has had their no logging policies tested in practice just like Windscribe
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/update-the-swedish-authorities-answered-our-protocol-requestWe never pay for reviews
It may come as a surprise that many product reviews found on the Internet are actually paid ads disguised as unbiased reviews. Sometimes, the more a company pays, the more favorable its product or service is reviewed. From a consumer’s standpoint, this makes it hard – if not impossible – to know when a review is genuine and when it’s a biased advertisement.We do not have affiliates, and do not pay for influencers
In other words, we do not pay anyone to write about Mullvad – good or bad. We don’t even pay for links back to our website.
https://mullvad.net/en/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-affiliatesI enjoy that Mullvad are transparent with their third party security audits:
https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-completed-by-cure53Tom’s Guide has nothing to do with Tom, and it’s not for privacy oriented people.
Case in point: In the article they link their top 5 VPN picks for 2025. Those being NordVPN, Surfshak, ExpressVPN, Proton and PIA. And for some reason the site has a hate-boner for Mullvad, and keeps mocking it in this article, and others for not having all “features” the others do, not paying for audits, etc.
