Google vs Mullvad VPN
Based on our analysis, Mullvad VPN is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Mullvad VPN | |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | D · 26/100 | A · 93/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (8) | Positive (95) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (42) | Positive (92) |
| What you can do | Mixed (58) | Positive (85) |
| What they promise | Mixed (55) | Positive (90) |
In plain English — Google
Google tracks almost everything you do online — every search, email, location, video, and website visit — across all their products and millions of third-party sites, then uses it to sell ads. They do give you unusually good tools to review and delete your data, but the defaults collect everything.
View full analysis →In plain English — Mullvad VPN
Mullvad collects almost nothing — no account names, no activity logs, no IP retention — and the policy is short because there's genuinely very little to say; what little data does get processed (payments, support emails) has hard, specific deletion windows and never leaves the EU.
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