Online privacy isn’t just about a VPN. That’s why we have developed the Mullvad Browser.
Observant users may have noticed that our browser comes with the DuckDuckGo search engine by default, but also an alternative: Mullvad Leta.
Mullvad Leta is accessible only with a paid Mullvad VPN account; you can set it as default in the Mullvad Browser, or reach it at leta.mullvad.net
Mullvad Leta uses the Google Search API as a proxy, caching each search. These cached results are shared amongst all users, reducing costs and improving privacy. This service is user-supported and doesn’t rely on ads or data selling.
Our browser extension simplifies access. Once your account number is set in the settings, there’s no need to log in each time. To protect against correlation attacks and manage costs, searches are cached for 30 days, possibly resulting in slightly outdated results.
Each account can make 100 direct searches daily, with unlimited cached searches. Viewing subsequent search result pages counts towards your daily limit. Non-cached searches prompt a Google query from Mullvad Leta, sharing only the search term and keeping the rest of your data private.
The search results are free from third-party tracking links, providing a clean, private browsing experience.
Mullvad Leta has been audited by Assured
I don’t want to be negative, so I’ll start off by saying Mullvad has already made an absolutely incredible Browser and VPN service. But do we really need another Google proxy? I would be a lot more interested if Mullvad was following suit with Brave and making their own index.
Honestly this is something lame that I would expect from Proton. Mullvad has always stayed pretty true to “do one thing, do it well”. This is a small step in the wrong direction.
Honestly I tried it and this is a case where i don’t see the point in using it. There are plenty of alternatives out there which are just as good and don’t have a limit on searches
I feel like mullvad is going down hill.
Went to leta.mullvad.net and was asked for my Mullvad account number. Since I’m using the white-labeled Mullvad service MozillaVPN I can’t use it even in its own browser, which seems like a misstep if they want people using the browser.
The Mullvad browser for macOS is pretty rough around the edges. To start with the Creation and Modified dates for the app are inaccurately listed as December 31, 1999. More important, it’s slow - much slower than Safari or Brave or Firefox when browsing mainstream sites like CNN and news.google.com
“Too many requests. Please try again later.” upon trying to log in…?
Agreed. They’re creating solutions for issues that were already solutioned.
The money invested in “Mullvad Librewolf” and “Mullvad Whoogle” could be invested in bringing more countries, improving speeds in existent servers, feature parity with the mobile apps…
i use my own SearXNG instance on a vps i own.
I won’t speak for the search engine as I believe there is no point imo. However, for the browser, it follows a different anti-fingerprinting methodology than librewolf, meaning that instead of randomizing a fingerprint it will blend in your fingerprint with many others, just like what Tor Browser does. The browser is also being maintained by an organization with a lot of contributors and resources(Tor Project) and a large company(Mullvad) rather than a small team of volunteers(Librewolf iirc, please correct me if I’m wrong), which is a much stronger guarantee of regular updates and longevity. If you’re a Mullvad VPN user, then the browser also uses Mullvads plugin which makes it easy to rotate IPs within the browser without rotating them system-wide. Honestly I use both browsers, but I have about 5 browsers installed on my laptop and there’s about to be 6 soon, so take that as you will.
It’d probably be a better idea for them to automatically not ask for an account number for connections coming from their IPs but idk