Feels like you can’t turn over any rocks these days without seeing fascists scuttle off back into the darkness.
Friendship ended with… wait,were did VPN Area go?
Aw fuck. He died while I wasn’t looking.
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”
How did you find out they were fascist?
Check the link under the post.
You know that’s the least credible source and literally, as biased as you can get. A self proclaimed “Socialist newspaper”.
How did we go from “don’t believe everything you see on the Internet” to “i’m gonna believe this is true because it says so on this website!”?
Mullvad themselves confirmed it.
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 written in C instead of Rust, which makes the lack of audits even more terrifying.
What of theirs is written in C?
Eg: You buy a sub and just connect through wireguard. You aren’t touching any AirVPN code (unless you want to use their client, which is not written in C, but you can just use the official wireguard client or any other tool to connect).
Same goes for any provider as far as I’m aware. Am I wrong?
Maybe I misread your comment, I thought you were talking about AirVPN vs Mullvad.
Anyways the C code in that repo looks like it’s just libraries they have vendored in, not specifically stuff they are writing (which a lot of apps do, but usually dont include directly in their repos), but I could be wrong didn’t look that hard.
And you can still always use a different client (I know you can with AirVPN, I assume ivpn is the same).
shouldn’t you be helping unfuck Rust core utils at ubuntu or something?
They explained why they dont pay for audits in a forum post and I agreed with their reasoning, which if I remember correctly was something like:
If we paid for an audit, there’s no way you’d know we didn’t enable logging, etc, right after the auditors left.
It really is just a game of trust when it comes down to it and they feel the most trustworthy to me, but if lack of an audit changes your mind that’s okay.
and it does not allow italian users because of Piracy Shield
Can you elaborate on that?
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.
it worked for me, they refunded me the remaining days in my subscription without problems.
Nice to hear that!
Oh this is so disappointing! Now I have to find a new provider 😒
I’m an AirVPN shill cuz I like their service, but if you take a look and like it too, you will save a bit of money compared to mullvad :)
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!
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.
It doesn’t matter where you live. 5 EUR is about 5.75 USD, so I’d say they’re roughly the same price.
IVPN offers a warrant canary and is situated in Gibraltar and the territory has their own variant of GDPR.
Most likely not
I can’t wait for everybody to agree on a new service only for that one to also be bad. I enjoy watching people fail to learn that it’s not possible for a commercial service to be uncorruptible. You can’t sell privacy in this world
You can’t sell privacy in this world.
but it can be bought.
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.
I’m a pure being of light and even I get shit
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?
“extreme-left” is a weird way to refer to fascists
What do you want them to do? Honest question. Because it seems like you expect everyone you don’t like to behave like saints 100% of the time.
Anyway, the CEO of Proton is hardly a “Trump bootlicker”, and the party the cofounder of Mullvad donated money to is very much not “extreme left”.
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…
you mean the long trusted VPN that has now been found funding fascists?
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?
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.
Your point is really valid however as there is no clear lines, so people will have to draw their own.
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.
The person who donated is rich from investments in multiple companies. Mullvad not existing would likely not have changed this set of events.
and they gained the liquidity for those investments how?
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.
