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[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t have an opinion on whether Örebropartiet is fascist or not, honestly that might be giving them too much credit.

The party is really only known nationally for its front figure, Markus Allard – your typical anti establishment loudmouth that mostly attracts people that elsewhere would have been drawn to libertarian parties.

Allard is not politically stringent – he’s previously belonged to Vänsterpartiet (the Left) and his grandfather was a well known parliamentarian of Socialdemokraterna (social democrats). Allard, a self described Marxist, is best known for quasi intellectual rants about a ”transferiat”. Essentially it’s about how working people are leached on, not only by capitalists, but by unemployed, immigrants, civil servants and people in ”bullshit jobs” type of roles.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don’t have an opinion on whether Örebropartiet is fascist or not

if you're espousing racist right-wing policies like remigration, and saying things like "Sweden is for Swedes", and blaming all your troubles on immigrants, then that makes you a fascist. ethnic cleaning is fascist shit. that's what he wants, to ethnically cleanse Sweden. if you "don't have an opinion on that", then you do have an opinion on it, one that supports fascism by sitting back and doing nothing in the face of it.

[–] CommunistCuddlefish@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

5 minutes ago I read about the Proton guy donating to fascists. Now I read about the Mullvad guy donating to fascists. There's nobody who makes VPNs who isn't a fascist?!

[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe njalla

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[–] cosmosaucer@hexbear.net 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

what is it with vpn ceos n being fascists

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I think it comes with the being a ceo. Become a legal parasite, get a free fascism.

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[–] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They're not fascists. They are liberals - and like liberal elites throughout history, they are utterly incapable of defending their precious private property by themselves. That is what they need the hencherproletariat for - fascists.

Fascism does not beget fascism - liberalism begets fascism. The liberal economic order is popping rivets all over the place... so some of these elites are building bunkers in New Zealand, while others do what liberal elites have always done when their power and privilege is facing a threat from below - feeding growth hormone to the vilest and most violent elements of the working class - the hencherproletariat. That is why you see liberals like Trump, Musk and literally a "whose who" laundry list of liberal elites enabling fascists and inviting them into power structures - they are essentially holding auditions for Hitlers and Pinochets.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

The word for someone that supports fascism is fascist

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[–] yakko@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I just wish we could have clear political terms that don't get co-opted in bad faith.

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[–] ShutUpWesley@piefed.zip 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A constant reminder that a person can be right about one thing and wrong about another.

And that who ultimately gets your money is important.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Motherfucker... What is it with VPN providers and fascism? Are there any VPN providers that don't have fascist CEOs (or that don't sing praises about fascists) and have opensource clients?

Proton already has a CEO who likes Trump, so I don't trust it. I know of IVPN and Windscribe which have opensource VPNs. No idea about their bosses political leanings or donations.

Edit: I can't read Swedish, but I ran it through DeepL and it's not naming a source. Donations seem to be public but anonymised.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it’s not naming a source.

The Flame emailed Daniel Berntsson and he admitted that the donation was from him. The Flame is a newspaper that's over a hundred years old, I think that makes them somewhat reputable. and if it's not true, then we'll see a statement from Mullvad and probably a lawsuit, don't you agree?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I see. Alright, if he admitted it to them, then that's good enough for me. He might even make a public comment about it.

Means I have to move on from Mullvad.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

well, I think speaking to a newspaper is a public comment. and judging from the Mullvad subreddit, there's a whole lot of people from Europe who don't think it's a controversial opinion at all. which doesn't really surprise me, considering the recent news from places like the UK with the race riots by white supremacists, fire bombings, and things like the growing popularity of the AfD in Germany.

they're doing the nazi thing again, just this time they're all doing it together. yet they'll still claim they're better than the US somehow, despite having popular political parties that very publicly support ethnic cleansing.

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 13 points 2 days ago (11 children)

First, Bitwarden. And now Mullvad. Those were like the only two “good” things left that I use. Sigh.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

for Bitwarden, a much better replacement is Vaultwarden. it's very easy to run yourself, or you can find other servers elsewhere run by people. best part about it is that since every client acts as a full backup, if a server shuts down then you can just transfer your data elsewhere with no issues.

I know someone who runs their own server, which is what I use.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 day ago

Vaultwarden needs its own client, and soon. BW is absolutely going to stop allowing non-official servers at some point.

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[–] ZWQbpkzl@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago

Reminder that a lot of VPN providers resell mullvad. I think Mozilla is one.

Also if you're looking for commercial privacy software then you're going to rub some shoulders with.

libertarian-approaching

[–] myrmidex@belgae.social 10 points 2 days ago

Anyone has any decent anglophone sources on this yet?

[–] 0xtero@beehaw.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh well. Get some money, start kicking down. Is that the model? Rather disappointing, I have to say.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 9 points 2 days ago

keeping the poors at each others throats is the universal feature of the rich and elite. it's how they stay in power. if the people ever united together, then we would be unstoppable and they know it.

[–] therealdries@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Same ole' Europe.

[–] bourgeoisie_burgers@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wtf , so commercial vpns are dead to me now. What's the best option? a small cloudserver plus a proxy of some sort?

I'm checking ivpn and so far, so good.

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