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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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[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 113 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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?

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I don't want to change my VPN based on one article, so I'm getting mentally ready for resrarching, but I'll ask you first: how very bad is the Örebro Party?

[–] freeman@feddit.org 5 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

its wild, but not your typical neonazi party read my comment https://feddit.org/comment/13683001

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thank you. To be honest, I'm still not sure what to think. Here in Czechia, this kind of mixture of nice/good system critique and racist usually means the party is populist and won't be doing the nice stuff once in power. They'll be doing whatever is good for anyone, who investes in them + the racist stuff, which is also populist and kind of easier then doing good. Is that the case in Sweden too?

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 10 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Okay, I suppose nuance is in order here so let's add some. Örebro partiet used to be hardline leftwing extremist and antifascist, but they explicitly moved away from their political roots distancing themselves from their old ideological convictions under the new party leader.

They have since started explicitly supporting populist and nationalist positions on migration and integration that attract the same kind of latent racist voter base that SD (the much more directly neo Nazi party) rode to fame and election victory.

If I had to classify their overall political identity they're reminiscent of the NSDAP leading up to their first election victory. They're in favour of authoritarian rule with both right- and left-wing populist goals such as improved public healthcare and forced remigration or forced assimilation of Muslim immigrants.

Overall your personal mileage may vary, but I'm not okay with my money indirectly supporting a political party that's contributing to the overall decline of civil discourse and feeding into the hated of migrants and the "us vs them" mindset that's poisoning society.

[Edit] @ambitiousslab@feddit.uk gave a great breakdown of their migration stance earlier in the thread. I'm just going to say that I'm not okay with ethnic cleansing and leave it at that.

[–] SupersonicHail@lemy.lol 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

4 real isn't it a super socialist party? Lol... I guess I read the wrong articles 😆

[–] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

Everything I've seen is that it used to be super socialist but under new leadership has been moving more and more right and embracing things like removing all brown migrants.

[–] sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

DNS over HTTPS

Is there a reason you use DoH over DoQ, DNSCrypt, or ODoH/Anonymous DNS?

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

Mostly broader support for devices in my network. I know providers can still read my network traffic's SNI but for most common use cases it's better than nothing. And if I really need the anonymity, neither DNScrypt or a VPN will ever beat a layered proxy network like Tor.

[–] ramasses@social.ozymandias.club 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gil2455526@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 13 hours ago

Sadly Quad9 doesn't have an ad/porn/gambling blocker option.

[–] fira@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Proton VPN?

Or maybe you can configure your OS to use a DNS over https provider in the settings. I use Quad9

[–] ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 51 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Proton's owner also gives me the ick with his Trump and the Republican Party praising. I'll look into it further and see if there are any other good options.

[Edit] I learned that CIRA (Canadian domain name registrar) has DNS over HTTPS support so I'll be reverting to them. Canadian shield does sound pretty good for a non-profit service without tracking: https://www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 18 hours ago

See the link by Innerworld below.

A highlight:

And while the tweet praises Trump’s pick for leading antitrust at the DOJ, it is exceedingly clear that he did not directly endorse Trump himself or Republicans in general.

It felt very much like a witch hunt every time Proton was criticised. Almost like other VPNs wanted to tarnish them. But that would be a conspiracy to think I guess.

Now, I don't know any more, but that one tweet seems to be the only bad thing Proton has done as an organisation, which is a non bad track record IMO.

[–] Innerworld@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's about outright Trump support, which is not what the comment you replied said he did. They said Trump praising, which is actually kind of what Andy did. I do agree that he is likely just a liberal that didn't fully read the room when posting to social media, however he did praise Trump in that post for that very specific pick.

Personally, I wouldn't @ Trump and compliment him for anything, especially not if I was a leader of a large company. There is no need nor a reason to make trump's ego any bigger than it actually is, not with everything else he's actively doing to the world. For me, it's less about him "supporting Trump" and more about his inability to read the room and not see why that would be taken as supporting Trump.

He also did say that the republican party used to be better, which, while true, it's a low bar and it has been shitty republicans for a long, long time. Reagan was a republican, did the tables turn all the way back then?

[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Proton has similar issues with leadership, unfortunately, just not as bad. For DNS, I use locally hosted unbound which retrieves records directly from the root servers. It's not the same as DoH, though, so if that's a hard requirement then you'd want something like Quad9.