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Mullvad controversy
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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You are making this up.
Those of us mad understand how the money changes hands.
It is mathematically correct to say that a portion of the energy I may contribute to Mullvad will end up financing fascism.
This isn't only about the political donations. That's a coowner/cofounder we are talking about. That's significant. If some rank and file schmuck donated to nazis in his spare time and not a cofounder, it would be less bad. Still bad, but less damaging.
This cofounder has outsized infuence on how the culture of Mullvad is shaping up.
Do I want to support that when there are better, more private, VPN companies without the nazi cofounders? For example NymVPN mixnet.
There is no good reason to prefer Mullvad.
It'd be a different story is we only had two VPN companies and both had nazi founders. Then we'd have to weigh privacy vs nazism. But that's not our situation right now.
And not a small donation either. He contributed 72% of their entire funding in 2025.
I thought Mullvad was famous for being the gold standard VPN provider. Can you elaborate on who is more private?
They suggested nym which uses a technology called a mixnet that’s almost self explanatory: you have a network that mixes up the path communication takes so that it’s harder to determine the sender.
Unfortunately that’s got a bunch of problems that basically boil down to it’s more complicated and therefore easier to screw up and the more compromised nodes an attacker has in the mixnet the easier it becomes for someone to screw up.
It’s cool tech but not trustworthy yet compared to the simple alternatives.
Also nym will let you log in with google credentials. Theres some very careful scrutiny a user would want to apply to that.
I do not think nym is a bad vpn like service thing, just that its not comparable to mullvad.
I don't think I am. I was in at least two threads where people just referred to them as Nazis and in a stage of outrage weren't open to other interpretations. However, my post can be taken as all users who got mad called them Nazis. Some got mad and didn't call them Nazis. That's why I said assholes are still assholes.
It's mathematically correct to say a portion of your fees in the past may have ended up in the coffers of the Örebro Party. It seems likely that continuing payments to the company may filter through Daniel to them as well. Facism is traditionally associated with right-wing extremism. This party is a Frankenstein monster of traditional associations and they lean further to the left than to the right, except on immigration. With "remigration" as the de rigeur pipe dream corner stone. Xenophobia alone doesn't fascism make. The Soviet Union wasn't exactly a hit destination for immigrants. So we either enlarge the definition of fascism to include these horseshoe loonies. Or we need a new word. Or we just agree to call them assholes and any continuing payments to Mullvad carry a mathematical risk of further financing assholes, more than one.