(original article in Swedish that reported this)

Posting this because I hadn’t heard about it before and I’m probably not the only Mullvad user here, so might as well.

I’m not Swedish, but going off NATOpedia, it seems like the party is basically reinventing fascism from first principles:

The party claims to stand for a “class-conscious populism” which according to party leader Markus Allard takes inspiration from marxist ideology and unites the “productive” classes of society against the “Transferiat”, with the “Transferiat” being a term coined by Allard to describe the classes of society that lives off transfers that are a net negative for society such as those who, despite having an ability to work, live off social welfare benefits, as well as those who work “made-up services”[…]

The party differs from modern day left-wing parties by seeing the working class as co-dependent with people working in enterprise and business and instead sees the classes that “live off transfers”, as specified, as a large economic net-negative and an obstacle for a functional society.

visible-disgust Their ideology is nonsense fake-marxist revisionism to redirect anger at capitalism and turn it against immigrants and people who need social welfare (though they do back some generally left oriented social policies, their main thing appears to be racism)

Even if you’re comfortable with funding this, it still begs the question of just how trustworthy Mullvad actually is.

I guess this still beats any of the dozens of Israeli VPNs that definitely spy on you, but it’s not great emilie-shrug

  • lurkerlady [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 days ago

    i mean wouldnt hosting your own vpn also out you? fingerprinting is a thing, they would just collate all the tracking onto the new ip, even if that ip is anonymous, it would unmask you. you need some amount of secondary traffic to the server to mask your traffic. i suppose you could host a nym vpn or tor node. nym gives you credits for doing this and it also gives you the choice to swap ips if your server gets banned by a lot of stuff (also some people need swappable ips, i use it for research in foreign languages and it helps a lot). also chelsea manning has a big stake in the company, maybe itll be less shit idk

    i suppose you could also host publicly available open source frontends to obfuscate traffic a little. i use redlib 99% of the time and it works pretty good.