(original article in Swedish that reported this)
Posting this because I hadn't heard about it before and I'm probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.
The party claims to stand for a "class-conscious populism" which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the "productive" classes of society against the "Transferiat", with the "Transferiat" being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work "made-up services"[...]
The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that "live off transfers", as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.
Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)
Even if you're comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.
I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it's not great 
Is this something you do? Have you noticed it being more commonly blocked compared to a 'hidden' VPN with the traffic is coming from known data center IPs?
It's something I do, yes. Hosting my VPS on a rather small provider made it so that it's much, much, much less prone to being blocked by websites than when I used NordVPN in the past, but I can't compare it to a "hidden" VPN because I don't even know what you mean
Very cool!
I know some VPNs have some feature they advertise that hides the fact that you're connecting from a VPN for sites that don't allow VPN traffic. Haven't done too much messing around with them, but wondered how it compared.
I'm not sure how they may be advertising that, the traffic that reaches the website is not VPN encrypted because the tunnel is from your PC to their servers, not from their servers to the websites'. Most websites banning VPN traffic do it by IP banning, I'm sure it's easy enough for them to purchase a list of VPN server IPs.
As for obscuring the fact that you're using a VPN, that's definitely a thing though. There are protocols such as AmneziaVPN or tools such as XRAY+Reality which allow you to pretend you're not using a VPN. OpenVPN for example is secure in the sense that your traffic is encrypted and the contents are safe, but sniffing your traffic would easily determine that you're using OpenVPN. These other alternatives, besides encrypting your traffic, pretend that you're connecting to a website of your choice, so from the outside the traffic looks normal rather than encrypted to most who may be sniffing. Source: my GF lives in Russia and I run an AmneziaVPN server for her in a VPS of my choice, it was the only way I found of overcoming the banning of stuff like YouTube or Telegram by Roskomnadzor.
I'm not an informatics nerd so you may want to take everything I said with a grain of salt, except the fact that both AmneziaVPN and Xray+Reality are widely used tools to overcome VPN banning and I've successfully used them to access e.g. YouTube from both Russia and China using my VPS hosted VPN.