God bloody dammit. I genuinely LOVE Mullvad and have tried to use their (not so cheap) services. I feel in this economy, privacy comes at a price and I was happy to do this.

Now, I realise my money is going to fund a POS far-right asshole.

Proton supports Trump.

Mullvad suports the far right.

Is there any major privacy respective service provider that isn't a bloody cunt?

As a Swede - fuck that guy and the fucking Neo Nazis coming out of the goddamn woodwork everywhere. I was all-in on Mullvad, but that's changing today. Anyone got a good recommendation for a DNS over HTTPS alternative that's not owned by a racist/Nazi/Fascist asshole?

IT company Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive remigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he tells Flamman.

Five million kronor. That's how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown in the party's income statement, which Flamman has reviewed.

Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.

"This is a donation from me personally," he writes in an email to Flamman.

The company has made large profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of 314 million kronor.

The five million from Berntsson constitutes the majority – a full 72 percent – ​​of the Örebro Party's income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. ———————————————

That’s the entirety of the article the toot references. No idea what it means.

The five million from Berntsson make up the majority – as much as 72 percent – ​​of the Örebro Party's income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025.

The money also seems to have been the triggering factor for the party's decision to stand in the parliamentary elections.

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Fuck them. Not sure who to go with now. Paying monthly and not needing to remember to cancel were the main reason I used them.

Also, it seems safer to assume that all tech companies are rotten until proven otherwise.

Disappointing.

[Örebro Party leader] Allard has described himself as a Communist, and a Marxist

A self-described communist promoting right-wing ideas? Lemmy is quite familiar with that concept.

Oh for fucks sake is nothing sacred

Okay, so no Mullvad, no Proton, no NordVPN... What's left that's not gross or double plus ungood?

What's up with every VPN company being facist right wing fucks?!

Anybody know of a VPN service that

• Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections)
• Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol
• Doesn't have Israeli ownership
• Isn't owned by fascists
• Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds

So far, the ones with major problems are:

• Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership.
• CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli

You know who hasn't given money to far right extremists? Proton and it's founder.

I remember when people went ape shit because the CEO, Andy Yen, approved of one of Trump's pick for the antitrust division.

Then the antitrust pick happened to be good at her job, so Trump fired her and people realized Andy wasn't so wrong after all but still hated him.

Everytime I tried to defend Proton, I got downvoted and insulted over this. Got called a MAGAt and a neo nazi sympethizer. I was told to use Mullvad and that it was so much better and I wouldn't be encouraging some right wing sympathizer even though Andy Yen never took any political stance.

Well who's laughing now?

I'm surprised that Sweden allows individuals to donate that much. Million dollar contributions from a single person should not be legal anywhere.

Why can't we have nice things??!!

FUCK, THAT MEANS I GOTTA GET RID OF MULLVAD VPN!

Any FOSS VPNs on F-Droid I should consider?

Ffs I was planning to switch to Mulvad since my Nord subscription is finally expiring next month, then I find this shit. I'm looking into AirVPN. They sound solid enuff.

Oh cmon! I trusted 'em to not shit in their pants, what next? We discover that Torvalds and Stallman are transphobic?

Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.

So Mullvad is over. What's the next best VPN?

I literally just ran out of time on my subscription too lol.

Thanks guys for posting this and for suggesting alternatives. I'll look into airvpn I guess. Fuck anyone who wants to make society worse by giving into their worst character traits and base instincts.

The title is misleading because it doesn't mention the millions are in Swedish Krona (I presume).

5 million krona would be €450 800.