ProtonVPN and DNS Leaks?

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Hello,

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I know this is a noob question, but maybe someone can help me out.

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I purchased ProtonVPN and happily used it afterwards. Recently, a friend suggested I should use a different VPN. He gave me an URL where you can do a DNS-Leak test, provided by Mullvad.

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Doing it, it showed like 20 different servers, some of them owned by Google.

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If I understand right, all this servers COULD intercept my data. Of course I didn’t trust this test result, as it came from another VPN provider. I found a neutral DNS leak test and it didn’t show Google Servers anymore. Yet it showed 5 different servers. For testing purpose, I purchaded a different VPN. Doing a DNS leak test only showed 1 single server.

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Three questions:

  1. Why does MullvardVPN’s DNS leak test claim that ProtonVPN uses servers owned by Google, when a neutral test says otherwise?

  2. Why does ProtonVPN use up to 10 DNS server for one IP? Doesn’t it increase the risk?

  3. Can someone confirm ProtonVPN is just as safe as MullvardVPN?

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Thanks a lot in advance for clarifying.

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Turn off DNS over HTTPS in your browser.
https://techdocs.akamai.com/etp/docs/disable-doh-browsers
Once you have disabled it in your browser, go here and check again, wait for the testing to finish - https://ipleak.net/
ProtonVPN and Mullvad VPN are both very good and secure VPN services.

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Can you provide the link?

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I have both set accordingly. The issue is regarding my Android device. At least according to the “neutral” test, there isn’t anything “leaking” but rather the information in the leak test showing 5 servers (all by owned by Proton) instead of 1 server when using Mullvard. The question mainly was why Proton uses several servers instead of one.

(And also why the DNS test on Mullvard’s website claims my ProtonVPN connection sends data to a server owned by Google, while a neutral test says it doesn’t)

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Why would we want to disable a supposedly more secure way to do DNS resolution?

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To use the ProtonVPN DNS servers, which are just as secure.