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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
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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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[–] Shaunhitorigoto@lemmy.zip 20 points 14 hours ago (3 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.

[–] Summzashi@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They look trustable (no email, payment in monero, no tracking) but they're incorporated in Italy which is one of the stupidest countries in the world for this purpose

Have you ever wondered why usually VPN companies are based in countries like Cyprus, Panama, virgin islands or Labuan?

[–] Shaunhitorigoto@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah that's a good point haha tax havens for the W I guess. On another note, I think Proton VPN is also a good alternative since they're based in Swiss, where data protection laws are mega strict.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Proton has given user data to the FBI and French authorities.

[–] FG_3479@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

If you have an account with them you should remove the recovery email and credit card. Those are the two things they can share AFAIK.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I am in Italy, AirVPN is Italian, and every page of their site states that you cannot access their services if you're an Italian resident.

Any idea why?

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Thank you I was genuinely not aware.

That said, and please tell me if I am wrong, it is this VPNs choice to conduct things in such a way that would make them liable to have any kind of problem with the authorities since the norm asks them to report if "the providers become aware" which implies logging and analysis.

I am not sure there is any law asking them to do that, although there may well be.