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tailscale has many employees, adding a small patch to wireguard client programming and strapping in mullvad account provisioning seems like a very small amount of effort for a pretty cool feature that also earns some recurring money from the hitherto freeloading nerd customers.

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Point well taken. My comment was primarily based on two other factors:

a) the strategic signal it sends re developer resource allocation and b) the market signal it sends, selling a security solution while partnering with a company (not a knock - I've been a mullvad customer!) that provides solutions which are frequently used to bypass compliance/regulatory controls.

True, but if it is any positive signal, FiloSottile (golang crypto lead) vouched for Mullvad integration: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/2880#issuecomm...

I think Tailscale going after 3 wildly different market segments (hobbyists, smb/teams, enterprises) [0] is why we're likely to see more such features, not less.

[0] https://tailscale.com/blog/pricing-v3/

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