Re:NordVPN Says Its New Protocol Can Circumvent VPN Blockers
by tacomagick on Wednesday January 29, 2025 @07:25PM
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I'm a user of Mullvad, I can get configurations for Wireguard and OpenVpn through my dashboard. This eliminates the possibility of being used as an exit node as I can read the wg config and see exactly what it does. I think other providers should do the same with their systems. It allows for high flexibility.
>> This is already standard practice for commercial VPN providers
> I know those freebie VPNs do that, but many commercial providers are still sane.
True. There are free VPN apps that rope their users into a residential proxy net. The combined userbase is sold to bad actors as a residential proxy service.
This is not what major VPN providers like Mullvad, OVPN or even Nord do.
The first two have a good reputation. Nord, not so much. However, for all it's faults, Nord is no bad actor - they're not in the same category as a ResProxy seller.