There is no stance that Mullvad can take on this in order to make me want to stay with them, since this is not an abstract, philosophical matter. It's simple: Daniel partially owns a pro profit company. I pay Daniel's company some money. Daniel reaps - as he should - parts of the company's revenue as wage (which is my money). Daniel uses that wage to fund whatever the hell he wants - as he should - with my money. I'm either fine with contributing to this or not. Period. I am not fine with it, so I'm flirting with IVPN.

We have nurtured a culture of radical tolerance.

Some people have nurtured a radical intolerance against funding right extremism.

"aren't we living in a multicultural democracy, why can't the minorities and the racists just get along and be respectful of each others' ideas"

Absolutely pathetic response. I'm less likely to use them now than before I read this

Most predictable response ever. Some shite about the free market of ideas and some other shite about the need to engage with "ideas you personally dislike".

In other words, we should give fascists a seat at the table and hope we can debate them away. Been there done that, doesn't work.

I don't expect a company to just condemn fascism completely unprompted. But in a situation like this, if you can't even commit to taking action to ensure that a fascist party does not receive any of your funding again, then your mission isn't worth shit.

I'm sure that the people who would be forcibly "remigrated" by this particular political party would not feel very free from authority and surveillance.

even if you do believe in freedom of expression and information, why would you donate to a fascist group which have been using suppression of expression - either it is attacking immigrants, pushing age gate laws, or attacking trans rights - as their path to power?

I have no problem, if the service gets used for things I don't agree with (I will not know anyway). But I do have a problem when one of the founders I paid (with the money from my subscription) openly supports this kind of party. No hard feelings, but with that knowledge, I prefer to give my money to another VPN.

Got my refund from Mullvad so I'm fine now.

Damn the radical woke left with their impossibly high expectation of basic human decency.

It should be clear by now how the party donation relates to this. Mullvad does not condone it, nor condemn it.

If they don't condemn donating to Nazis then they're Nazi's. Pretty clear. Proton VPN it is.

I think they're severely underestimating how valuable the recommendation of techies/word of mouth effect is to their business...

vpn company be normal for 1 second challenge [impossible]

Self-censorship out of fear is an even bigger dampener than direct censorship.

Man, I hate having to think about the effects of my actions before I do something. It's so much better to just do things, and then see if there are consequences.

/s

We have nurtured a culture of radical tolerance. Even when some in our sphere of collaborators have advocated for actors and views that have personally and severely affected the founders and their family members, this has not stood in the way of cooperation.

The leopards that ate other people's faces will definitely not eat my face too

I have had a Mullvad account for many years. I now have an iVPN acc. It's a very simple choice for me. If Mullvad's success results in funding far right racists then I don't care to assist that happening

What a weak statement. Not one mention of how the donation most likely came (in part) from customer funds.

Here's the statement from Mullvad's co-founder himself, which at least has some substance on the why: https://dberntsson.info/2026/07/20/orebropartiet/

I've read the blog of the other guy... What a mutilation of marxism...

They really don't get it, it is very disappointing, but they deserve to fail now. 99% of the VPN industry is dodgy, mullvad now included.

They try to distance themselves from it as much as they can, but at the end of the day he is using money he obtained from Mullvad (us) in ways some people don't like.

The only true way to stop it is for the CEO to leave the company and sell all shares and stakes...

Or to simply stop giving Mullvad money, which is what I've done. There are plenty other privacy focused vpns that don't have this issue.

Wow I didn't hate them before, but thanks to this post I stand corrected

Not gonna give them a single cent from now on.

Given that Mullvad is the gold standard for ACTUAL privacy, can be paid with cash or crypto, has no user accounts and has been actually tested by law enforcement and they got fuck all.

What is the alternative? Privacy first VPN, not “I wanna watch Japanese Netflix” VPN.

Pretty tone def whinging about cancel culture.

They seem to be on the inertia as a strategy train. Most users won't have heard about this so they're not in danger of losing them. A few who have won't abandon ship because it's a pain. And the rest they seem to tolerate losing. That's unfortunate, say I who isn't even their customer. I would have thought they do more but maybe another two weeks of ended subscriptions can lead them to reason and get rid of Daniel.

I am once again posting a reply to help users of lemmy understand that there is no alternative to mullvad unless you can accept a lower privacy, anonymity and security standard of service.

That doesn’t mean if you leave mullvad you will be harmed, only that you will be losing safety margin.

Your decisions are your own: you may know better than me, you may be willing to suffer for your principles, you may believe your actions in the marketplace will have a tangible effect on the world but if you read this you can hopefully make those decisions yourself with clear eyes and understanding.

Gee, I wonder what the far-right thinks about letting leftists speak freely?

The conflation between a chud using mullvad vs using the profits from mullvad to fund a political party... Tf