The Stellar Swedish VPN Service Had to Be Corrupted...
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Mullvad co-founder Daniel Berntason donated 452k euros to the fascist Örebro Party in Sweden which made up 72% of the party's total funding in 2025. This political party wants to deport non-white citizens and immigrants guised under the white nationalist euphemism "remigration"
Someone in a privacy sub mentioned to me, that a refund may be possible, if you are uncomfortable with this situation. Did not try it by myself, but I probably will in the next days.
https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822246786533774
it worked for me, they refunded me the remaining days in my subscription without problems.
Nice to hear that!
My mullvad subscription was up for renewal yesterday. Guess who gave 80$ to ivpn instead.
People on that Little Rock are gonna be stoked!
Use AirVPN. It's activist led from the start.
Sadly it does not have independent audits.
and it does not allow italian users because of Piracy Shield
Can you elaborate on that?
https://torrentfreak.com/airvpn-stops-serving-italians-due-to-piracy-shield-blocking-requirements-240206/
Oh this is so disappointing! Now I have to find a new provider 😒
I have read so much into Mullvad thinking that I did my due research however companies can hide their skeletons pretty well before they surface.
Never heard of ivpn, is it comparable to Mullvad?
iVPN and Mullvad are usually the two go-to mentions when somebody asks "what is the best VPN?".
There are many comparison reviews and sometimes there are one or two others thrown into the mix, most common one I've seen is protonvpn, but others may have seen different
Here's another resource!
https://vpn.techlore.tech/
Never heard of this site but this is perfect for what I've been looking for to switch providers, thanks!!
I'd say so, yes. The main differences are that the pricing is a little different ($6 per month, rather than €5), the service is based in Gibraltar (a non-UK British Overseas Territory), and it doesn't offer as many anti-censorship features (just V2Ray over TCP or over QUIC).
Personally, I like it.
So worse in every measure but more expensive?
Well the money doesn't go to support fascists (to the best of my knowledge), so there's that...
Yet another deficiency!
/s
Depending on where you live and the current exchange rate, $6 might be cheaper than €5.
IVPN offers a warrant canary and is situated in Gibraltar and the territory has their own variant of GDPR.
Most likely not
Proton VPN also exists. Swiss, though.
Seem to remember Proton CEO is a Trump supporter..
You would be wrong.
They have financed far-right French youtuber
It was a sponsored video. They apologized and cut ties with the YouTuber.
I swear that some people here would burn anyone who isn’t a pure being of light.
It was the typical "oh no, you caught us, we totally made a mistake". The cherry on top was that their response was 100% LLM written corposhit.
Proton's CEO is a Trump bootlicker; you think that's a better taste than the co-CEO of Mullvad giving his own personal funds to an irrelevant extreme-left political party?
I'm not sure how substantiated and reliable this article is, but I found this: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e
Stop, think! Who really is to gain by getting people to not use a long time trusted VPN....
So let me get this straight. One of this companies CEOs donated a huge sum to a bunch of fascists, so now people are switching away from the service. Won't that only hurt the staff and make people lose a excellent service, as if the CEO is wealthy they'll be virtually untouched?
Pay money to mullvad - > CEO gets part of that money - > CEO funds fascists - > fascists are being funded with your money.
Pay money to <random-corp> - > <random-worker> gets part of that money, through their paycheck - > <random-worker> funds fascists - > fascists are being funded with “your” money
It came out that he was using his personal money from his pay, and not directly off the expense sheet of the company. To that end, when does it stop being “your” money. If you were replace that with “VP”, “Manager”, or even “random tech” is it still your money at that point?
Your point is really valid however as there is no clear lines, so people will have to draw their own.
The amount between worker and CEO is orders of magnitude different. And it doesn't matter that it's his private money. It comes (partially) from me. Therefore if I use the service I feel partially responsible. A couple percent of every euro I've ever given them, went to funding that party. So I will use a different company, where that doesn't happen.
The core issue is that this guy's money comes from mullvad customers, and he's donating that money to a far right political party.
If mullvad didn't have any customers that political party wouldn't have any money.
I highly doubt that would be the case.
The first part of your comment clearly appears to be true, but the 2nd can't be insinuated in my opinion.
Its a tiny party who's total donations are a fraction more than the amount contributed by mullvad guy.
Its irrelevant anyway. I don't want my money to support that party.
Founder/probably partial owner. Pretty sure the CEO released a statement that he doesn't agree with the donation.
Too bad he’s got 50% voting rights.
