Does the UAE have something similar to China?

Unless they’re doing some serious DPI (no idea how they would do that on Wireguard traffic other than plain metadata mining), the only ways they can stop traffic is by stopping anything to certain IP spaces, or certain types of traffic through certain ports, or a combination of both. If they have truly blocked the Mullvad IP space, then no this will not work, but OP mentioned using a different app to access them, which lets me assume that it was a problem with the client.

Just install wireguard on your OS and get the files from the Mullvad site. Also, pay in XMR

True, DoH and this will be useless

Have they heard of VPNs or no?

Nobody is hacking your computer LMAO. It just lets them establish a connection to your computer to leech the file(s), nothing more

Nice try RIAA. My favourite isn’t in the Mega thread HAHAHA HAHAHAHA losers

Exactly. People should read your comment before shouting at me for not providing “proof”. They seem incapable to understand that Big Tech can be smarter and more resourceful than a lot of security engineers

Maybe I should have said “it’s not anonymous based on your threat model”

Technically speaking, VPN logs tend to include the IP address of clients connecting to them, after which the good VPN providers like Mullvad, IVPN and maybe PIA tend to purge them somewhere in their process. Now, if the VPN is running in a RAM-only node, then these logs probably don’t touch storage, which means there’s not much need to shred information from hard drives for the VPN provider.

With that said, an ISP can technically log your traffic and see that you’re connecting to the IP range associated with a VPN. That and perhaps some more covert side-channel/correlation attacks can, in theory, compromise your identity.

Of course, this is going deep into OPSEC and forensics, and I don’t think the NSA is that interested in the average Billy torrenting “The Office” to go through that many logs, even if the studios sue in court. Hence, technically your privacy is somewhat maintained with the good VPN providers, but you’re definitely not anonymous

For anonymity, yes. Sure you might fool Google trying to match your IP to your traffic but that’s about it