Mullvad review of 2024
Early in February 2024 we announced the overhaul of our Support Team email inbox, by moving it to our self-hosted hardware. We explained how it had been audited, and that we had opted to run the servers completely in RAM.
Constant packet size, random background traffic and data pattern distortion, with a heavy increase in bandwidth utilization were what we unveiled during May with DAITA. The technology is available on all our apps across all our platforms, offering users the optional ability to mix in fake data within their traffic to further mask their browsing and usage.
A more detailed look at how DAITA works, with an accompanying video and diagrams was released late-October. DAITA increases bandwidth usage greatly , and can have an impact on battery and network performance. Since announcing the feature we have enabled it on more than twenty VPN servers, both rented and owned, with plans to expand in 2025.
An internal goal of 2024 was to bring feature parity across platforms and privacy features to the forefront of our apps. We achieved this by adding Multihop to all platforms, offering a new method by which to connect to our backend API in order for the app to communicate with login servers with the Encrypted DNS Proxy and adding ShadowSocks for WireGuard to enhance obfuscation for customers that truly need it.
