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These was one of the fastest DoH services for pipelined queries over single TCP connection

IME, it was much faster than Quad9 for this purpose

First Mullvad shuts down its Google search proxy

Now its DoH service

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They lost me as a customer when they got rid of port forwarding, which is nice to have on the high seas

I stopped using Mullvad when they discontinued OpenVPN support (another one to add to the parent list). OpenVPN, if nothing else, provides a wider array of connection options that have a better chance of fulfilling your specific network needs. It supports both UDP and TCP, unlike WireGuard.

I say this respectfully, but Mullvad is perhaps “dumbing down” their VPN service in an effort to simplify their operations and cater to a wider and more general audience.

Curious what alternative you found as a replacement. Could you share?

I'm not the person you are responding to, but Proton VPN? That's what I switched to after it turned out one of the two Mullvad founders took my money and gave it to a local lunatic politician.

I've heard AirVPN being mentioned around, if it interests you.

I switched to ProtonVPN which has a heavy emphasis on port forwarding.

I did too, but I really miss Mullvad's static port forwarding system. It's a pain having to continually run a NAT-PMP client, and it doesn't work when you're connecting to ProtonVPN on your router.

Switched to Windscribe at the time, quite cheap.

PIA

> is nice to have on the high seas

For sailing the high seas, or for harboring? I, for one, am glad to not have Mullvad's IP ranges blacklisted everywhere.

I've found DoH was pretty unusable for me on Windows because the TCP connection doesn't seem to stay open between queries. No idea if it's a software or network issue, but big unpredictable delays on DNS queries broke all kinds of weird unexpected stuff.

NB. I don't use Windows and I don't use "Private DNS". I'm referring to using HTTP/1.1 pipelining^1 with a TCP client plus TLS forward proxy or HTTP/2 with an ldns-based client to fetch DNS data in bulk, outside the browser, from the command line. I got some incredible speeds from Mullvad

1. Not every service still supports 1.1, RFC recommends H2

Also had a ChatGPT alternative with less surveillance

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