Mullvad is a single VPN service. There is no free tier that unlocks into a paid one, no ladder of plans that gate advanced tools behind a higher price, and no bundled suite of adjacent products competing for the same subscription. One payment buys one product: a WireGuard virtual private network, built as native apps … Read more
Mullvad VPN has built its reputation on minimal data collection and account anonymity. That reputation invites an obvious follow-up question. Who actually owns and controls the company behind it? The public answer looks simple: a Swedish company, wholly owned by its two founders. The evidentiary answer is more layered. Some parts of the ownership chain … Read more
Proton Unlimited is one subscription and one Proton Account, covering paid access to six core products (Mail, Calendar, VPN, Drive, Pass and Wallet) under a single billing relationship. Alongside that paid core sit names a subscriber will also encounter but doesn’t automatically get at a paid level: Docs and Sheets live inside Drive rather than … Read more
Proton’s ownership story looks simple. It isn’t. Proton VPN presents itself as part of a mission-driven alternative to venture-backed privacy companies. In 2024, Proton announced a share donation to Fondation Proton, a Swiss foundation registered the previous year, and described it as Proton AG’s “primary shareholder.” That phrase carries a lot of weight in Proton’s … Read more
What does NordVPN actually include? NordVPN’s feature set is broader than a single VPN app. At its center is an actively developed core VPN entitlement covering multiple protocols, a kill switch, DNS protection and a wide range of specialty servers. Around that core, NordVPN has added security and networking features that live inside its applications, … Read more
A named Deloitte assurance report, a previously unreported Panamanian warrant, and where NordVPN’s evidence trail actually holds up Can NordVPN’s central promise, that it does not keep the records that would let anyone reconstruct what a user did online, be trusted? The evidence answers this in two different registers. The technical core of that promise … Read more
ExpressVPN spent more than a decade as a single product with a single job: encrypt a connection and route it through a server network. That is no longer the whole story. The company now sells a tiered subscription that bundles a password manager, an email privacy service, a U.S.-only identity monitoring tool, a browser-based AI … Read more
ExpressVPN is owned by Kape Technologies. That’s the factual answer. The more useful question is what that ownership tells us about the company’s incentives, strategic direction and the future of one of the world’s largest VPN providers. ExpressVPN spent years building a brand identity around independence. That identity changed in December 2021, when a British … Read more