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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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[–] lemmelemmy@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 57 minutes ago)

They’ve been putting up quite provocative ads in London past year. Comparing UK to third-world countries. Like literally putting up names. I mean they’re not wrong but you’re not gonna get any customers if you take a piss on their nationality you know. People don’t get to chose where they born.

Guess that logic won’t apply when you’re from world’s most privileged country.

Ps. Not gonna lie, even from an objective perspective this is an awful ad. Lazy and pretentious. Something would a 20yr angry kid would come up with this tbh.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 43 minutes ago

Well shit. I need to change to airVPN now. I'm worried as I've heard people had their IP's leaked to their ISP with AirVPN, BUT that could have also been user error.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 43 minutes ago

God. Fucking. Dammit.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks guys for posting this and for suggesting alternatives. I'll look into airvpn I guess. Fuck anyone who wants to make society worse by giving into their worst character traits and base instincts.

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Shit, not everyday you see your hometown on Lemmy of all places. I know Allard from my syndicalist youth days, him beeing head of the local leftpartys youth wing. This party is more of a local populist left party. AMAA i guess.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

So Mullvad is over. What's the next best VPN?

I literally just ran out of time on my subscription too lol.

[–] v3ritas@infosec.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

🤦🏻‍♂️I just renewed mine for a year. Guess that gives me plenty of time to start looking for a replacement

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

AirVPN allows port forwarding and supposedly keeps no logs. I don't remember if they've been audited or not

Edit: No audit. So we can't be sure about the logs claim. They DO have payments over monero though, so that's nice at least.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 hours ago

Ya, I am also moving to AirVPN.

Maybe we can "pressure" them into doing an Audit. Their linux GUI client sucks, but we can use the CLI client just fine. I just wish they had an AUR official version.

[–] GreenShimada@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Y'all assume privacy is some left-of-center thing?

You ever notice how the right always assumes privacy is only for pedos? That's what they use it for, they can't imagine any other use for it.

[–] Sniatch@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

I'm confused, what makes you think anyone here thought privacy is some left-of- center thing? Do you mean we should accept that our VPN provider is spending money to far right partys? Because it's normal? Or what is your take?

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Örebropartiet is a conservative left party. Think China, rather than say AfD in germany. Flamman is also a shit show. The owners pretend to be left, but they gladly embezzle money from Malmö city.

https://www.sydsvenskan.se/malmo/sydsvenskan-avslojar-flamman-lever-pa-bidrag-cheferna-tjanar-miljonbelopp/

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 43 minutes ago

i would be very curious why örebropartiet has anything to do with malmö

[–] GoddagYxskaft@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

That's not the same organisation. Flamman is a newspaper as well, totally separate organisation.

[–] teslasaur@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Ah. I thought it was the same. How can they be allowed to use the same name? Trademark should stop these kind of confusions. The news paper was first, I assume.

[–] GoddagYxskaft@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Think the newspaper organisation's name is Tidningsföreningen Norrskensflamman.

[–] Shaunhitorigoto@lemmy.zip 20 points 9 hours ago (9 children)

Ffs I was planning to switch to Mulvad since my Nord subscription is finally expiring next month, then I find this shit. I'm looking into AirVPN. They sound solid enuff.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

What about IVPN?

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Italy is a 14 eyes countries which disqualifies any VPN service thats hosted there.

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