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Mullvad
Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2020–2025), in 8 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Sites block or degrade with Mullvad, often needing five or more serversUnreviewed
20202026- Mullvad VPN leads to constant captchas and is blocked on some sites2025-07-29
- Sites block or degrade with Mullvad; often must try 5+ servers to get access2024-12-25
- Many services block or throttle Mullvad IP ranges, making it hard to use daily2023-05-29
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 11 complaints
- Manual server selection among many servers is tedious and confusing for users2025-12-19
- Mullvad VPN leads to constant captchas and is blocked on some sites2025-07-29
- Randomly laggy DNS resolvers make sites hard to access, so user turns VPN off2025-05-28
- Every server in a country triggers endless captchas, making the service unusable2025-05-28
- Sites block or fail to load, Cloudflare checks and YouTube content blocked when connected2024-12-25
- Sites block or degrade with Mullvad; often must try 5+ servers to get access2024-12-25
- Many services block or throttle Mullvad IP ranges, making it hard to use daily2023-05-29
- Can't find the Monero payment option2022-05-03
- Multiple multihop methods confuse users; guide describes config files, not the app's approach2022-04-13
- After reboot, kill switch blocks connection until user toggles it off and on2022-04-12
- No way to pick English; stuck on Dutch or half-translated French with no easy switch back2020-10-22