Daniel Berntsson, founder of Mullvad, gave a personal donation of 5 million SEK (roughly 450,000€) in 2025 to Örebropartiet. This enormous donation accounted for 72% of the party’s revenue in 2025.

How does this affect Mullvad’s legitimacy as a company advocating for a free and open internet, while also funding a political party whose agenda seem to contradict these values? The official party website (in Swedish) can be found via the link below.

https://orebropartiet.se/om-oss/

  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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    21 days ago

    you don’t need a VPN company to use a VPN

    known datacenter IPs are increasingly blocked by website operators thanks to scraping

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      20 days ago

      By very few websites, in my experience. I run my VPN on a shared hosted server. I just have to solve more CAPTCHAs.