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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 What's next
They lost me as a customer when they got rid of port forwarding, which is nice to have on the high seas
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This is a very important detail. Adblock in 2026 is necessary and DNS will transparently do a lot of that work for you. It isn't just about lightning fast lookups and five-nines uptime anymore.
For blocking, I would much rather run my own service.
>We want a public service to be available. Going forward, we will support Quad9 instead of running it ourselves. Running a privacy-focused public DNS service is a highly specialized undertaking, and the Quad9 Foundation is the undisputed leader in the field. Rather than duplicating their efforts to achieve only part of what they do, we're putting those resources toward financially supporting Quad9 instead. Brilliant.
On the Quad9 website: >Since Quad9 already performs DNSSEC validation, DNSSEC being enabled in the forwarder will cause a duplication of the DNSSEC process, significantly reducing performance and potentially causing false BOGUS responses. This sounds dodgy. Surely that means Quad9 can poison my DNS?
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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
Curious what alternative you found as a replacement. Could you share?
I'm always wondering whether those centralized privacy services are not the easiest first target for three-letter-agencies to infiltrate to gain access to the most relevant users to track - and what currently would prevent them from doing so if they haven't already ? Maybe, as with the case of many TOR nodes , they might be running them.
> and what currently would prevent them from doing so if they haven't already they arent gods. some people actually have moral standards and dont just do whatever a foreign agency wants them to do
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 What's next
They lost me as a customer when they got rid of port forwarding, which is nice to have on the high seas
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.
>We want a public service to be available. Going forward, we will support Quad9 instead of running it ourselves. Running a privacy-focused public DNS service is a highly specialized undertaking, and the Quad9 Foundation is the undisputed leader in the field. Rather than duplicating their efforts to achieve only part of what they do, we're putting those resources toward financially supporting Quad9 instead. Brilliant.
Unfortunately, Quad9 is censoring some domains in Europe (notably in France and Italy) following injunctions issued by rights holders [1]. That was not the case with Mullvad's DNS. [1] https://quad9.net/news/blog/italian-blocking-demands-followi...
Seriously, what the fuck? So you're supposed to block VPNs as well? What's next, Tor exit nodes? New VPN and Tor nodes as they pop up? I really don't like where this is going.
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> and what currently would prevent them from doing so if they haven't already they arent gods. some people actually have moral standards and dont just do whatever a foreign agency wants them to do
Adversaries don't always ask nicely. Sometimes they break in and silently take the data. These services centralize traffic flows and make it so that an adversary only needs to tap one or two circuits to get a full picture for all users of a service.
Big tech services are less private than you think but almost every provider who cares about privacy is safer than you expect. Most of the people who work there are committed to their mission, and if they ever get a gag order someone will leak it in no time because they know exactly how to do it without exposing their identity.