Reflecting on an exciting year

For us, 2017 has been an amazing year. We focused primarily on expanding our service across the globe while also reaching some exciting goals.

First, some fun numbers:

• We increased the number of countries we offer from 17 to 27.
• We expanded our number of servers by 175%, from 59 to a total of 162.
• The Mullvad team expanded with four employees and three consultants.
• Our website is now available in 11 languages.

We also gave support to a number of projects that are helping us to make censorship and mass surveillance ineffective:

• We made a donation to the Qubes operating system.
• We donated to the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund's project audit of OpenSSL 1.1.1.
• We supported the WireGuard project with a donation.
• We supported the audit of OpenVPN 2.4 with a donation.

And of course, we made many improvements to our own service:

• We released the beta version of our next-generation app on macOS.
• We integrated the WireGuard protocol with our platform.
• We joined the world's most widely used internet exchange.
• We continued to add a variety of guides on how to increase your privacy.
• We launched our online privacy tool Am I Mullvad.
• We introduced a post-quantum secure VPN tunnel.
• We improved our credit card payment process and added the Swish payment method.
• We strengthened the Mullvad account number by lengthening it to 16 digits.
• We introduced Mullvad in retail stores.
• We established our own servers in Norway, providing faster speeds for the North Sea region.

As we wrap up the year, we extend a big thanks to you, our customers, for the continued word-of-mouth recommendations. Enjoy these final days of 2017 and have a Happy New Year!