Mullvad VPN and The Tor Project team up to release the Mullvad Browser

Privacy is essential for everyone and so should be the individual browsing experience. In addition to their great VPN-service, the folks at Mullvad now enter the browser market - backed by a strong cooperation.

Amongst the masses of VPN-services out there, my personal choice once was Mullvad VPN. Versatile, cross-platform-ready, easy to deploy and with a fair (and transparent) pricing policy paired with a certain anonymity in terms of payment - Mullvad is a trustworthy VPN-experience that can now be completed with a specific privacy-focused browser coming from Sweden and built with the help of The Tor Project.

„We want to free the internet from mass surveillance and a VPN alone is not enough to achieve privacy. From our perspective there has been a gap in the market for those who want to run a privacy-focused browser as good as the Tor Project’s but with a VPN instead of the Tor Network,”

(Jan Jonsson, CEO at Mullvad VPN)

Back in 2009, Mullvad VPN was founded with the ambition to make censorship and mass surveillance impractical. To this day the folks there have mainly been working towards that vision offering a VPN-service as good as possible.

„The mass surveillance of today is absurd. Both from commercial actors like big tech companies and from governments. We want to free the internet from mass surveillance and a VPN alone is not enough to achieve privacy. From our perspective there has been a gap in the market for those who want to run a privacy-focused browser as good as the Tor Project’s but with a VPN instead of the Tor Network.“

(Jan Jonsson, CEO at Mullvad VPN)

Of course the wheel isn’t reinvented here as Mullvad Browser is developed by the Tor Project’s engineers to minimize tracking and fingerprinting. It is — just like the Tor Browser — designed with the purpose and ambition for all its users to appear as a single one, having the Tor Browser as a strong foundation. Speaking of The Tor Project, this one hardly needs any further introduction either as we are speaking of a nonprofit-organization here which has the goal to advance human rights and defend online privacy by creating and deploying free, open source anonymity and privacy technologies such as the Tor Browser, Onion Services and Snowflake.

„Developing this browser with Mullvad is about providing people with more privacy options for everyday browsing and to challenge the current business model of exploiting people’s behavioral data. It demonstrates that you can develop free technology with mass-appeal and privacy in mind. When we collaborate, we want to drive change and raise people’s awareness that digital rights are human rights. We hope to inspire others to think of privacy as a ‘feature’ at the core of tech innovation, a building block designed to enhance user experience.“

(Isabela Fernandes, Executive Director, The Tor Project)

Everyone of you who is interested of checking the Mullvad browser out may do so free of charge. The browser is, of course, Open Source and can be used without Mullvad VPN although the combination is recommended to gain the maximum amount of privacy. It comes bundles with the Mullvad Browser-extension backed by the NoScript- and uBlock Origin-extensions. Users may raise or lower the security level or gain a new identity with preinstalled options easily.

Mullvad Browser is supported across all major platforms (Windows, macOS and Linux) and available for download at mullvad.net/download. Further information can be found at https://mullvad.net/browser and with knowing of this project now, there is just another additional browser hailing towards the market while striving for the standard everyone should take care of these days: Privacy!