Advice Request NordVPN vs Surfshark

[n8chavez]

Fair point on in-app DoH, I forgot that. I turned off the SurfShark AV service, though - I too don't need that kind of bloat in my VPNs.

There is one other thing that I think is very important. Mullvad can accept socks5 locally, meaning that any application set to use 10.64.0.1 as a socks5 proxy will only be able to connect if the VPN is running. It's not needed, but rather acts as just another safety net. I only know of one other VPN that can do this, out of the 50+ or so I've tested.

 

[Nightwalker]

There is one other thing that I think is very important. Mullvad can accept socks5 locally, meaning that any application set to use 10.64.0.1 as a socks5 proxy will only be able to connect if the VPN is running. It's not needed, but rather acts as just another safety net. I only know of one other VPN that can do this, out of the 50+ or so I've tested.

Windscribe Pro can do that as well if I am not wrong.

 

[n8chavez]

Windscribe Pro can do that as well if I am not wrong.

That's incorrect. See here. Even then, the socks5 proxies were not tied to their local connection, but were just unencrypted IP changing servers. The two I was referring to were Mullvad and hide.me.