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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)

submitted 5 hours ago by e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] itrealgood@mander.xyz 19 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Shit. So proton vpn it is? Their ceo is also not amazing, I heard. But doesn't sound as bad as this mullvad debacle

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He had some bad ideas, but hasn't yet been caught financing fascism if i remember correctly

[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

He talked up the Trump administration when he should have known better, but talking them up is not as extreme as funding them. I think. YMMV.

[–] leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

https://www.ivpn.net/ maybe?

[–] TWeaK@lemmy.today 4 points 3 hours ago

About the best we can do perhaps lol

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 hour ago

Looks like it might be okay. Price is pretty good. I have time left on my current Mullvad sub, so I'll have to find a new provider in the next 3-4 weeks.

[–] Hund@feddit.nu 6 points 4 hours ago

Proton has done some questionable things as well. The most recent is this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446899

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I feel like I've seen AirVPN recommended in the past. Do they have any dark history or security downsides?

[–] weilii@lemmy.lacasabien.space 5 points 2 hours ago

I moved to air vpn when mullvad disallowed port forwarding over the vpn and I have been pretty happy. When i looked into security audits it seemed to be the closest to mullvad in quality, while still letting be get a port though the VPN. I did not look into their founders politics. Until reading this today i had still been reccomending mullvad to all my friends that were not hosting stuff and im pretty pissed that i had been doing that now.