informational: mullvad vpn funding swedish national conservatives

[fairyrune]

before i begin, i would like to reiterate that this is informational. i do not intend to start discourse over whether or not you should or should not stop using mullvad.

very recently it has come to public attention that mullvad, a popular VPN service, has been spending massive amounts of its profits on the swedish party Örebro. this is a party that has explicitly aligned itself with the fascist far-right. you can read more here. given this is the space it is, i figured melonland users would want to know.

if you're looking for a VPN to replace mullvad in light of this news, airVPN or protonVPN are popular alternatives, but i cannot yet vouch for them myself.

[poesu]

Sadly, Proton endorsed Trump and deanonymised Stop Cop City protester (they were able to do so because they paid for their service and thus gave them their card details), so… Yeah

[SugrPawz]

Sadly, Proton endorsed Trump and deanonymised Stop Cop City protester (they were able to do so because they paid for their service and thus gave them their card details), so… Yeah

Well that's a reason to swap away from proton as a provider. Luckily I have 0 details on record with them but jeez. Now I need alternatives to them too. Gonna keep this post watched for sure.

[lakes]

I'd recommend either AirVPN or IVPN. ProtonVPN's CEO supports Trump and has proven not to be quite as private as Mullvad from a number of incidents. There's also some free open source VPNs that aren't ProtonVPN, like Windscribe and RiseUp VPN, but they're based in Five Eyes Countries.