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/
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.
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?
Mullvad was dead to me when they pussied out and took away port forwarding. That’s how I knew they were compromised
That’s the joint, that’s the jam Turn that shit up, play it again
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.
That’s not the same organisation. Flamman is a newspaper as well, totally separate organisation.
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.
So they’re orthodox left instead of identity driven rad libs? That’s actually kind of based, although I’m completely in the dark about the internal politics of Sweden, but if their focus is on class unity it’s based.
There really isn’t much of a movement other than Örebropartiet, not that i know. The left in Sweden have learned pretty hard on the globalistic view that everyone is the same, regardless of origin. That has then lead to them being the main party of Muslim immigrants, mainly due to their stance about Gaza. Örebropartiet is very much a small niche. Much like the anarchists or the piracy party.
i would be very curious why örebropartiet has anything to do with malmö
Man and i just renewed my subscription. Why do people always get their shit twisted in politics or whatever, its not like they need the money, donate it instead.
I HOPE this is fake. I find it hard to belive
Disappointing.
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?
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?
its wild, but not your typical neonazi party read my comment https://feddit.org/comment/13683001
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.
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?
4 real isn’t it a super socialist party? Lol… I guess I read the wrong articles 😆
Wikimedia DNS?
DNS over HTTPS
Is there a reason you use DoH over DoQ, DNSCrypt, or ODoH/Anonymous DNS?
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.
Proton VPN?
Or maybe you can configure your OS to use a DNS over https provider in the settings. I use Quad9
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.
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/
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.
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?
Quad9 is great imo
Sadly Quad9 doesn’t have an ad/porn/gambling blocker option.
More for me /s
IT company Mullvad founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a huge donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive remigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he tells Flamman.
Five million kronor. That’s how much money the populist Örebro Party received in 2025 – from a single person. This is shown in the party’s income statement, which Flamman has reviewed.
Behind the giant donation is Daniel Berntsson, founder and co-owner of the internationally successful IT company Mullvad.
“This is a donation from me personally,” he writes in an email to Flamman.
The company has made large profits in recent years through the sale of so-called VPN services, which make it possible to surf anonymously. In 2024, the company had a turnover of 314 million kronor.
The five million from Berntsson constitutes the majority – a full 72 percent – of the Örebro Party’s income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025. ———————————————
That’s the entirety of the article the toot references. No idea what it means.
The main part is the party’s support for so-called “remigration”, which is
ethnic cleansing[1] via mass deportation of non-white minority populations, especially immigrants and sometimes including native-born citizens, to their place of racial ancestry
About the immigration policy of the party:
Markus Allard initiated heavy debate in 2025 by claiming that Sweden is “the land for/belongs to the Swedes” and that the Örebro party favors a large scale remigration policy. He also criticized the Sweden Democrats for, according to him, allowing too many immigrants into the country under their watch as confidence and supply to the Kristersson cabinet.
In 2026 ÖP party leader Markus Allard sparked controversy on several occasions. In a debate hosted by Studio3 with Liberal member of parliament Martin Melin, Allard asked: “why won’t the Liberals push for deporting 100 000 social welfare-Somalis?” and in the same debate said that “Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.” [45]
In a podcast segment about immigration and deportations Allard stated his opinion and said that “They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.” [46]
About the foreign policy of the party:
In a podcast in May 2026 Allard clarifies some positions that his party holds and among other things made clear that leaving the EU and NATO were on the table for ÖP. Regarding NATO Allard claimed that Sweden cannot trust or rely on NATO and that the country should instead seek to massively increase its weapons production and also become a major arms exporter, arguing it would benefit the Swedish economy.[47][48]
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Allard stated his opinion and said that “They will also be forced to leave, even if they are born in Sweden, because they have no natural connection to Sweden. They are not Swedish.”
Lol how is being born somewhere not a natural connection???
Also how far do you go back? What’s the magic number? Cos at some point pretty much everyone’s is an immigrant to their country.
Well, according to the Sweden Democrats, the far right party the government collaborates with and their youtube channel (which they have allegedly cut ties with, but that proved to be a lie a while back) that also gave Allard his own show, had a program worrying about “third generation” immigrants, when talking about who is “great replacement” replacing Swedes.
Thats right, in a program where they were talking about how every single one with two foreign born parents and half (because “that seems fair”, they said in the program) of those with a single foreign born parent are paricipating in a replacement conspiracy, they at the same time worried about the great gap in the statistics that does not keep track on who is third generation immigrants, so the replacement is even greater than that.
How far? If you’ve got a you got a grandpa with a sun tan you might be impure to these fucks. But our government thinks they are fine people.
Edit, oh yeah, the native Sami people and Jews are not Swedish to them either. They have doubled down on this many times.
Swedish racists: “Expel everyone who isn’t native.”
Me: “Okay, fine then. Sweden for the Sámi!”
Swedish racists: “Wait, not like that!”
You’re falling for their rhetoric by asking that question. We all know that they don’t give an actual shit about the technicalities of their racism. If your skin isn’t as white as the driven snow, you are seen as inferior to these fucks.
I’m not. Just pointing out how ridiculous and arbitrary it is.
Why do these kinds of products even exist? I’ve never used one but have thought maybe I should look into it. I sometimes proxy through a cheap or throwaway VPS, figuring small ipv6 allocations below the ISP level aren’t tracked very carefully above that level. In some cases the VPS host just gives you a bunch of addresses out of a /64, when theoretically a /64 is the smallest allocatable chunk and it’s what a single device is supposed to get.
Because where I go on Internet is not the business of my ISP, and it’s not data I want them to store and sell to whoever will pay for it? I am now behind a VPN 100% of the time.
Based on my virtual location, YT doesn’t force me to connect to watch videos (in some parts of the world, they seem to do!), and I won’t be stopped by age verification crap in my country.
Your VPS provider and your ISP aren’t the same thing. I’d trust my VPS provider way more than I’d trust the scammy VPN companies that I see advertised all over the place.
If you’re the sole user of your VPS, all the sites you visit can identify you based on your IP only. Behind a VPN, they have to rely on cookies, fingerprinting, etc. (of course assuming you don’t just login…).
Some VPN suppliers have a no log policy and have been audited to confirm they had indeed no log.
Mullvad was audited multiple times and the audits confirmed no log and no information leak. They don’t even store customers info: you have a customer number, and you’d better not lose it. Sure if you pay by credit card, they can trace you back.
They’re transparent about issues they face (2 years ago they reported a weakness allowing websites to identify the same browser switching outgoing servers) and the fix they use.
So yes, they are one of the very very few services I trust.
VPS supplier are just as likely as any other company to sell, leak or disclose on request your information.
how trustworthy is this?
https://mastodon.online/@mullvadnet/116822244689326681 - I think they pretty much confirmed this.
Let me put it this way. I dont doubt he personally donated that money. They claim to get this from the partys own disclosures.
However. I’ve never heard of “Örebropartiet” i quickly read they’re the biggest party outside of the parlamental parties, though that doesn’t really say much in itself to be honest. And quite frankly, no one outside of Örebro gives a fuck about what’s going on in Örebro. No offense.
Nor have I ever heard of this publication “Flamman”, that also claims to be some old socialist newspaper. My point being. You’d struggle to find a more biased source of information on what they call a “far extreme right party”
Not to say what they claim is false. I’m just saying. I would cross referrence with other publications given their obvious bias
Oh cmon! I trusted 'em to not shit in their pants, what next? We discover that Torvalds and Stallman are transphobic?
TIL kernel.org has a Mastodon instance.
My original comment was ironic but having a confirm that his political ideas are not bullshit is nice
Speaking as someone who does some work for Stallman, although he is right 99% of the time, that last 1% is a doozy
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The five million from Berntsson make up the majority – as much as 72 percent – of the Örebro Party’s income last year. It is also the largest single private donation to a party in 2025.
The money also seems to have been the triggering factor for the party’s decision to stand in the parliamentary elections.
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Fuck them. Not sure who to go with now. Paying monthly and not needing to remember to cancel were the main reason I used them.
Also, it seems safer to assume that all tech companies are rotten until proven otherwise.
https://www.vpnscorecard.com/ seems like a good place to check for alternatives although it doesn’t go into the politics of the company mostly. Still, their top scorer https://www.ivpn.net/ seems like a good bet.
That’s a decent link, thanks. Unfortunately Mullvad get a good score there too. As you say, the shady extracurricular stuff is missing.
Jesus. Fucking. Christ.
This is fucking disgusting and extremely fucking dangerous. Nazi parties spread like a virus. One day they are completely underground, next time you look they are a major force in the parliament.
Mullvad literally grabbing them from the rock bottom where they belong and bringing them into light is unforgivable.
I’m from Poland and we have a huge problem with these parasite parties. They managed to shift the Overton Window so far into the right that the libertarians are literally on the left and the socdems are the extremely far left.
AirVPN
This changes nothing
You weren’t using Mullvad?
I will continue to use Mullvad
Nice, thanks. I can block you now.
Guess I’m going back to AzireVPN.
Owned by Malwarebytes, a US company - that means FISA courts and secret information trawling court orders.
According to their security page it doesn’t seem like that would matter; they wouldn’t have any information to share. And it helps that they’ve been audited by a third party
Apparently FISA courts can order the installation of runtime surveillance software.
Surveillance doesn’t work like the part of crime investigation where the investigators can get a search warrant from a Court (which in this case would be to get some logs, which as you pointed out don’t actually exist), it works like wiretapping where the court orders are to install said wiretapping equipment and it then just stays there tracking everything that happens.
What that “no-logs” stuff does from the point of view of users, as I explained in another post, is to stop things like rights owners being able to track who was pirating their copyrighted works from an IP address and timestamp as that would require access to logs which don’t exist, not stop state surveillance by countries which have surveillance courts that can secretly order companies in their jurisdiction to install surveillance software in their systems.
Mind you, normal courts can also order them to install wiretapping software, but they’re not going to do it for non-commercial copyright violations, plus the Laws that apply don’t allow dragnet surveillance (it’s only the “special” shit that came out after 9/11 like the Patriot act that created such special courts and allow them to secretly order the installation of systems and software for mass surveillance)
So, yeah, if all you care about is pirating without getting letters from lawyers demanding money from you, then any no-logs VPN is probably fine. If you want to avoid state surveillance, then you want to avoid VPNs based in countries with surveillance courts and legislation as well as VPN exit points in such countries, and that means at least the US, UK and Israel.
Thanks for sharing, I didn’t know any of this. If you have some sources on this stuff please share, I’d like to get more familiar with this sort of thing. Quick question though: How would installation of runtime surveillance even work for Azire? They don’t have local or remote access to do that.
Theoretically a court can actually order the people that installed and deployed that to install something else instead.
If you’ve subverted the organization itself, it doesn’t matter what the organization claims to have as hardware and software.
Anyways, if you genuinely want to know more, go read about the Snowden Revelations, 5-eyes (previously 4-eyes), FISA courts and so on.
Appreciate it. I’m only passively aware of these topics. Thanks for sharing info rather than just jumping to insults and judgement.
as soon as i started to see billboards and bus adverts i had a feeling mullvad wasnt what i thought it was. sad, i was hoping i was wrong.
Claiming immigration policy in general is fascist is just an ignorant perversion of the word that lessens its weight.
The fascist dog whistle is the word “re-immigration”, it’s just another word for ethnic cleansing.
But that’s such a vague term that it’s meaningless to draw any conclusion without seeing what the proposal is.
For example, is the re-immigration voluntary or forced? To what degree does it apply? For example, is it just for illegal immigrations, legal immigrants, or does it also include naturalized citizens? Is it race, ethnicity, religious based, or is it based on universal secular principles? Does it ensure safety of the people re-immigrating? There is a lot to it.
Depending on this is implemented, there might not be any issue with it at all. For example, I’m an Iraqi immigrant in the US. I have a lot of family in Sweden. There are a lot of Iraqi immigrants who don’t like living in Sweden and would like to return to Iraq, however, they can’t either because they lack the means to do so or they’re not sure if their safety is guaranteed. There are people who like Sweden, but want to return to Iraq anyway because they think its better, but they’re afraid they might lose their Swedish immigration status and benefits. I feel like its reasonable to have a program in place to assist these people return to their home countries if they so desire it.
On the flip side, there are some people who don’t deserve to be there. For example, there’s a lot of people there who have had their asylum cases rejected for either being violent criminals or doing some other shady activities, but they still got there anyway by smuggling themselves in to the country illegally. There’s a lot, and I mean, A LOT, of people there who are only because of fraudulent asylum cases. These people used fake documents, fake cases, and even fake relatives to get into the country. I feel like it’s reasonable for any country to deport people like this because they’re criminals who aren’t supposed to be in the country in the first place.
There’s also cases where it depends on the case. For example, there are quite a lot of people who went to Sweden specifically just to leech off of their generous welfare benefits. These are people who could work, study, learn the language, and assimilate, but they actively refuse to do so. Instead they pretend that they’re disabled and desperate in order to collect government benefits indefinitely. I think the most egregious of these cases, should be grounds for deportation. There are some individuals who got there legally and for genuine reasons but they committed after getting their immigration status, I think the more heinous cases where the crime is something like rape or murder, that should also be ground for deportation. There also quite a lot of people who genuinely hate Sweden. Not in the sense, they dislike the lifestyle or don’t understand the culture, but in the sense that they want to see the country destroyed. A lot of these tend be the more religious nut types who go out of their way to undermine Swedish laws, freedoms, and culture, get involved with extremist groups, and incite hate and extremist acts. I think these people should also be on the radar of such a program, where they forcibly deport the criminals and try to talk with the most incompatible individuals about consider re-immigrations.
I personally know people who fall into every single one of these situations, that’s why I used them as examples. I think it’s reasonable for Sweden to have comprehensive policy to address it. In fact, I think it would be naive and damaging to pretend there is no issue and do absolutely nothing. Immigration policy is not fascism, that’s just basic sovereignty. It only becomes fascism when they try to relocate people who don’t want to leave and haven’t done anything wrong just because of their race, ethnicity, or religion. But this is only an extreme scenario, and i think it’s foolish to pretend that all immigration policy is this type of fascism because it’s not.
