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.
They look good from an ethics standpoint, but it looks like the only anonymous payment method they take is monero. I’m considering them, but I’m not super familiar with crypto and how to obtain monero. Looks like I’ll need to do some research.
isn’t monero the only decent way to pay anonymously over the internet?