Racist co-founder. Let's just start calling a spade a spade. He's a racist.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2026
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All private financing of political parties and politicians everywhere must stop.
Just as religion and state must be separated so must politics and money. If you hold more than $10 million in assets you don't get to influence politics. It's one or the other, not both.
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Saying he 'made a donation' is downplaying his role. It makes it sound like he's just some guy doing what everyone else does to participate in politics...
The 2025 donation accounted for 72% of the party's total income last year. ... According to data collected by DonationWatch, 2025 was the most lucrative year in the party’s history, netting a total of 5.58 million SEK. For comparison, the party received just 202,000 SEK in total donations throughout 2024.
Just the annual interest on his donation is more that all of their other donations for the entire year combined.
He didn't just make a donation, he is practically their sole source of financing.
Oh shit, that has got to be the poorest political party I've heard of 🤣
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Mullvad co-CEO Fredrik Strömberg confirmed that neither Mullvad VPN AB, its parent company Amagicom AB, nor its sister company Tillitis AB played any role in supporting the political party.
It doesn't matter if the company itself was directly involved or not, the money came from the company, and from its' customers.
yeah it's like saying Elon is only a piece of shit on his free time so it's okay
edit: ~~piss~~ of shit
I'm not taking side here, but to be fair, Elon Musk is a shitty person doing shitty things both professionally and private. Mullvad VPN is at least only doing good things!
With that said. I have stopped using Mullvad VPN for now. We'll see how this all plays out.
gonna get downvoted to hell here but making EVs and charging infrastructure is a good thing. also rooftop solar and batteries.
still, fuck nazi elon.
edit: this isn’t even about “credit” for developing the tech or whatever. even if we all agree this stuff was going to happen with or without elon, the Tesla business is still putting these products on the market. That is good, just like Mullvad and VPN. They didn’t invent VPN or anything, they are just one (good) provider.
The only issue with Tesla is that the quality of their cars is mediocre at best, while you're paying premium, and that Tesla is the most childish and obstinate company to work with.
We have something called Råd & Rön's Blacklist, which is respected Swedish consumer magazine's list of products to avoid. Tesla is one of the brands that's listed there. Partly because of the poor quality of the cars and partly because they don't follow the rulings from the National Board for Consumer Complaints here in Sweden.
And they don't give a **** about insurance companies either. If something happens to your Tesla, you're on your own buying a new one yourself. You can forget about getting any sort of help from Tesla.
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A commonly known US analog is the Chik-Fil-A restaurant chain. They are proudly Christian and got tons of flak for donating to “traditional family” organizations that spread gay hate and so on.
They stopped, but the owner still personally donates. So every dollar you spend there still fuels those hate groups. It just takes a slightly different path.
So the question isn’t “is the company bad,” it’s “what is your money funding?”
I still call it Bigot Chicken to this day. My family who enjoys it is annoyed by me harping on the company's general suckitude.
Too bad.
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Frustrated. I signed up for protonvpn because I was using their services. Then dropped their services and moved most things to self hosting and moved the vpn to mullvad. Now mullvad is in the shitter so I guess I have to switch again. Where to go? Suggestions?
It seems that IVPN is getting a lot of new customers. I have never heard about them before though. Don't take this as any sort of recommendation or anything.
"I don't like co-owning a nazi bar." Well, boohoo, grow a spine and do something about it.
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I’m tired boss…..
Just when you think you find good companies to support they end up being run by shitbags.
Ok, where to next for my VPN needs?
I highly doubt you'll find any company composed solely of people that support ideologies you agree with. I know that sounds flippant and dismissive but ultimately we should support the best options we have. Or I guess you can roll your own solution and trust that you have the skills to stay ahead of the opposition.
There's a big difference between a CEO that openly hates unions and has affairs or a software developer making 100k a year that makes racist AF on Facebook vs a CEO that's literally keeping a bunch of Nazis afloat and giving them an outsized voice.
Also, there's no best option when it comes to Nazis because if you give them an inch, they'll subvert democracy and human decency.
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"I like this burger made by fascists. I'm going to keep eating this burger, I don't care where it came from or where my money buying the burger goes to."
So many comments here sound like this, geez. Same people saying "we can be friends, can't we, even if our politics differ?" Morality and respecting humans isn't politics. And no. We can't.
Also, yes, enforcing racial and national purity (remigration) is, in fact, fascist ideology. Get over it. It's not extreme, it's calling a spade a spade. https://lemmy.zip/comment/27359847
Also it’s a damn VPN. Pick another one. It’s not even like they can use the excuse that it’s the best in the field (still not an excuse but loads better than, I just “like” it)
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There is no middle ground to be had with Nazis. It's us or them. If the Nazi won't leave Mullvad, then I will leave as a customer. Simple as
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ffs - first Proton, now this.
I've never liked the idea that I have to trust my VPN, and this news raises a pretty significant trust issue. Makes me think I've been approaching this from the wrong angle.
Anyone have experience with the TOR daemon?
This is way worse than what Yen did. This guy donated a lot of money to a party that explicitly pushes demigration policies, and if there was any doubt that this was a motivating factor for the donation, he later said he felt those policies were necessary. That's understandable to not want to give your money to someone who you know is going to go bankroll demigration politics with some of your money.
Yen praised the Republicans at large over an anti trust pick.
I think the other criticisms of Proton's policy changes are valid, and everyone has different standards for what is enough to divest from a company I guess, but I've heard people calling Yen a fascist sympathizer for that statement, and that's just divorced from reality imo.
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I've been looking at TOR, I2P, Reticulim, Freenet, Snowflake, IPFS
Tor get's blocked a lot. It's the fastest of the options. The level of anonymization is ok. If you piss off a nation-state, it may not protect you sufficiently. It's had a history of leaks, If an intelligence ag owns enough of the exits, timing attacks might out you.
I2P is more secure, harder to block, but it's really slow and has very limited access to the clearnet. It's also super easy to DDOS. There are some torrents, forums and chatrooms out there on i2p, latency is rough.
Reticulum is pretty cool. It's a protocol and you access things like nomad net on it. It's crypto is good, there's no clearnet access. It may have issues when/if it scales
Snowflake is slow AF, mainly used to get anonymous access out from restricted nations-states.
IPFS web3 crypto storage. you can host files/sites on it. It's kinda hard to make stuff on there go away, it's also kinda hard to get stuff to stay. If you're not paying a pinning service, even daily scripting the pins to keep data up there is a losing battle. It's slow, fragile, not very anonymous.
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I'm not at the point where this outweighs the reasons I picked mullvad yet. And the other cofounder's statement does at least give me hope that it might work itself out in a way I can accept before my current term is finished.
That being said, I'm not sure I can give money to the company when someone is profiting from that money and spending part of it on a political organization that expressly espouses a stance I believe to be harmful and dangerous. And it isn't like you can pirate a VPN, so it differs significantly from when actors or musicians do stupid shit.
That being said, I also don't think that using mullvad would be something other people would be obligated to avoid just because the CEO donated to a small and shitty political party. By itself, it isn't something so bad that it's possible to point to a customer and do more than inform them of the donation and maybe give them links to see for themselves that it's a shitty party. Or, at least that it's a party with some really shitty platforms.
But the guy needs to show a major shift in how he donates before I'll renew.
He didn't just donate though, he basically funded it single handed. A quick read about the party suggests that the person in charge is seriously unhinged.
He needs to be bought out of mullvad.
Just a rich person trying to get proto fascist powers. Yeah you wait a bit, but I won't and I hope it's the end of his company and career.
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Wikipedia - is as always - doing a great job at gathering info and they wrote down what the party's policies are.
IMHO what they propose makes no sense:
- (Massively) cut taxes
- Reimmigration
- Reduce the normal work week by 25%
How is that economy supposed to work? Where do you get the money from to finance this? Who should offset the missing work?
A $500k donation can bankroll your party for some time but certainly not an entire country...
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