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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 124 points 4 months ago (17 children)

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?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    DNS over HTTPS

    Is there a reason you use DoH over DoQ, DNSCrypt, or ODoH/Anonymous DNS?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    Proton VPN?

    Or maybe you can configure your OS to use a DNS over https provider in the settings. I use Quad9

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  • [–] 54 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

    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/

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago*

    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?

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    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.

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