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

submitted 2 months 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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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Is there a self hosted VPN option?

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

You can totally self-host your own VPN, a lot of folks will do that so that they can access their home lab remotely (without having to open ports or set up a reverse proxy).

That said, self-hosting kind of defeats the purpose of using a VPN service if the goal is to anonymise web traffic or bypass regional restrictions/ content blocks.*

* Technically you could use a hosting service and host your own VPN in another region, but it's probably not going to be cheap, and it's kind of a stretch of the self part of self hosting.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Could one use onion routing to self host and bypass the disadvantages?

Also, thanks for a succinct and straightforward answer.

[–] cmc@lemmy.zerolabs.sh 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can absolutely self-host onion services and bypass the use of VPN, if you're serving web apps.

Entirely depends on your use case, though.

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