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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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[–] halferect@lemmy.world 4 points 49 minutes ago

So like you get a bunch of money and become evil.

[–] Shaunhitorigoto@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 hours ago (2 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.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

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?

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour 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 1 hour ago

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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Is there a self hosted VPN option?

[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 5 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (1 children)

You can totally self-host your own VPN, a lot of folks will do that so that they can access their home lab remotely (without having to open ports or set up a reverse proxy).

That said, self-hosting kind of defeats the purpose of using a VPN service if the goal is to anonymise web traffic or bypass regional restrictions/ content blocks.*

* Technically you could use a hosting service and host your own VPN in another region, but it's probably not going to be cheap, and it's kind of a stretch of the self part of self hosting.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago* (last edited 55 minutes ago) (1 children)

Could one use onion routing to self host and bypass the disadvantages?

Also, thanks for a succinct and straightforward answer.

[–] cmc@lemmy.zerolabs.sh 1 points 25 minutes ago

You can absolutely self-host onion services and bypass the use of VPNS, if you're serving web apps.

Entirely depends on your use case, though.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 22 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

[Örebro Party leader] Allard has described himself as a Communist, and a Marxist

A self-described communist promoting right-wing ideas? Lemmy is quite familiar with that concept.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 15 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

How can the national socialist party be right wing? They said they're socialists!

/s fucking obviously I hope.

[–] Talentlesssculptor@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

"Allard and his party have been described as a nationalist[6], left-wing populist and right-wing populist.[7] He has also been accused of being a communist.[6] Biography

From 2009 to 2013, Allard was chairman of the Young Left's district organisation in Örebro. He worked for the election campaign of Oumar Mariko in Mali during the 2012 Malian coup d'état.[8][9] "

"In a post from 2012 Allard criticized the state of Israel and wrote that "Cuba is going to be placed under an embargo but the fascist apartheid state of Israel is defended until the last Palestinian child has been incinerated. Liberal politics."[17] In 2025 he again referenced the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and wrote that he “does not give a shit” about Israel or Palestine and that he thinks it is wrong to kill children regardless of which side perpetuates it.[18]"

"The Örebro Party with Allard as its leader says it wants to cut the salary for politicians and use that money to make dental care free/subsidized by the money taken from the politicians salaries.[25] On the topic of lowering the work hours Allard, in 2026 in the municipal assembly, voted in favor of a proposal by the Left party to enable a 30 hour work week with retained salary for some welfare occupations such as preschool teachers and employees at care facilities as a trial project that would after two years be evaluated.[26]"

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_Allard

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (4 children)

Anybody know of a VPN service that

  • Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections)
  • Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol
  • Doesn't have Israeli ownership
  • Isn't owned by fascists
  • Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds

So far, the ones with major problems are:

  • Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership.
  • CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli
[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 49 minutes ago)

Unless I'm mistaken, also problematic

[–] grittycat@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm unsure about the whether airvpn is owned by fascists but it seems to fit the rest of your criteria and at least on paper is italian

[–] cmc@lemmy.zerolabs.sh 2 points 2 hours ago

Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

You know I hear this thing called nord I'm sorry I can't finish without laughing

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[–] plsnerf7@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago
[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 18 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why can't we have nice things??!!

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

it's almost like money and greed breed power hungry assholes...

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

Apparently the longer someone is in power, the more their brain structure changes. I guess the phrase "your head is getting bigger" is physically true after all.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

When's the last time you updated the firmware on your duck

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