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Yes, as I mentioned in our prior notes (can't find them atm)

Tailscale is its own VPN. You can only use one VPN at a time on a device.

I run mullvad as well. When accessing tailscale, you need to turn off mullvad, and turn on tailscale (turn off one VPN & use another)

Their VPN routes through the UK, where they are based.

My testing has showed that when I turn off mullvad, and do not turn on tailscale, my network traffic still routes through the UK VPN, so I'm still not disclosing my current IP (which is great)

The only way I've found to use mullvad & tailscale at the same time, is to setup your devices tailscale IP to a domain you own.

- very easy to do, and again free.

Moid 10mo ago

I'm a bit noob, but in my head I am questioning the need for Mullvad if Tailscale is like a proper VPN service.

And Tailscale is free, so what am I missing?

( I'm twitchy af about leaving my node exposed on my IP address lmaoo )

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SUPERMAX 10mo ago

To put it bluntly, you should never put your node on a public IP

But if you want to access it from anywhere, you have to do that

or;

- use LNC (lightning node connect)

- use tor bridge like IP2TOR (but tbh I think I'm the cause of breaking IP2TOR last year [sry])

- reverse proxy

Can't have it both ways without some sacrifice

Hard truth is, If you really care about privacy, spinup a second node in the cloud.

Tailscale is 90% FOSS. Only part that is not is how they connect their servers. Which you can actually run yourself if you don't trust tailscale checkout HeadScale on github.

Its only free for a limited amount of users & devices. They offer a paid plan for more features.

SUPERMAX 10mo ago

I can only note so much before you need to dig into it yourself

Go watch a few youtube videos from the tailscale team answering your exact questions