Mullvad co-founder Daniel Berntason donated 452k euros to the fascist รrebro Party in Sweden which made up 72% of the party's total funding in 2025. This political party wants to deport non-white citizens and immigrants guised under the white nationalist euphemism "remigration"
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Feels like you canโt turn over any rocks these days without seeing fascists scuttle off back into the darkness.
Use AirVPN. It's activist led from the start.
Sadly it does not have independent audits.
They explained why they dont pay for audits in a forum post and I agreed with their reasoning, which if I remember correctly was something like:
If we paid for an audit, there's no way you'd know we didn't enable logging, etc, right after the auditors left.
It really is just a game of trust when it comes down to it and they feel the most trustworthy to me, but if lack of an audit changes your mind that's okay.
That's just so bad, "we won't show what we're doing because it's tiresome to cover it up" is what I read here.
If you want to look at the thread I was referring to (looked it up): https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/56799-audits/
I think what they say makes sense. I read it the opposite way: How do I know any service with an audit really is as described the day after the audit concludes?
Most audits (as far as I'm aware) will tell the company maybe a week in advance that they are coming in to do the audit, so it'a not like surprise visits I don't think.
I 100% think it comes down to trust (and some accountability being that their code is open source). Audits feel like a gamed system.
And being open source is a way of showing what they are doing.
You underestimate how costly it is to run services like that, your network is what it is, and it would be even costlier to change, who's going to change it all, hired contractors? I mean hired people already have fulltime jobs in the company. Then scrape all the traces that there were logging (amongst other things)?
It's not a Hollywood movie where you just "unplug the log machine" and hide it in a drawer.
Maybe you are overestimating it.
I wouldn't truly know because I'm not a wireguard expert or anything.
That said, a "log machine" that you describe could just simply be a portable executable with root access on the vpn server machine. With this root access it could probably easily see what network connections are being made and potentially sniff them.
Maybe I'm wrong though. I don't think it'd be easy to develop such an executable, but once made it could be portable, probably.
Unless you are a skilled network engineer/software dev in the field telling me it's not possible, then sure I shall believe you.
And written in C instead of Rust, which makes the lack of audits even more terrifying.
What of theirs is written in C?
Eg: You buy a sub and just connect through wireguard. You aren't touching any AirVPN code (unless you want to use their client, which is not written in C, but you can just use the official wireguard client or any other tool to connect).
Same goes for any provider as far as I'm aware. Am I wrong?
Maybe I misread your comment, I thought you were talking about AirVPN vs Mullvad.
Anyways the C code in that repo looks like it's just libraries they have vendored in, not specifically stuff they are writing (which a lot of apps do, but usually dont include directly in their repos), but I could be wrong didn't look that hard.
And you can still always use a different client (I know you can with AirVPN, I assume ivpn is the same).
Ah yes, because Rust is Holy and everything must be written in it or it's inherently untrustworthy
No thank you.
-- Frost
shouldn't you be helping unfuck Rust core utils at ubuntu or something?
and it does not allow italian users because of Piracy Shield
Can you elaborate on that?
Oh this is so disappointing! Now I have to find a new provider ๐
I have read so much into Mullvad thinking that I did my due research however companies can hide their skeletons pretty well before they surface.
I'm an AirVPN shill cuz I like their service, but if you take a look and like it too, you will save a bit of money compared to mullvad :)
ProtonVPN is really good, just FYI (no they are not supporting MAGA, common let that lie die).
Just installed grapheneos last week and saw IVPN in the Accrescent store. Seemed interesting as I am running low on mullvad time. What a fun synchronicity
Friendship ended with.. wait,were did VPN Area go?
Aw fuck. He died while I wasn't looking.

The flag carrier of, uh, port forwarding lol
I can't wait for everybody to agree on a new service only for that one to also be bad. I enjoy watching people fail to learn that it's not possible for a commercial service to be uncorruptible. You can't sell privacy in this world
So let me get this straight. One of this companies CEOs donated a huge sum to a bunch of fascists, so now people are switching away from the service. Won't that only hurt the staff and make people lose a excellent service, as if the CEO is wealthy they'll be virtually untouched?
The core issue is that this guy's money comes from mullvad customers, and he's donating that money to a far right political party.
If mullvad didn't have any customers that political party wouldn't have any money.
The first part of your comment clearly appears to be true, but the 2nd can't be insinuated in my opinion.
Founder/probably partial owner. Pretty sure the CEO released a statement that he doesn't agree with the donation.
Stop, think! Who really is to gain by getting people to not use a long time trusted VPN....
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