(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.
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.
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 
Edit: It’s been four hours and this comment has received no likes or replies. This may be because this comment is buried in a 20 hour old thread, or it may be because the joke just bombed. Either way I’m editing this comment to put the joke in a spoiler.
Joke about encouraging pedophiles to make themselves easy to catch and to turn themselves in
Dear pedophiles: You are not stupid for using CIFS! By all means, you don’t even really need a so-called “VPN” or “proxy service” or anything like that to share your child
sexual abuse materialpornography amongst yourselves without getting caught. It’s just a waste of money, really! You know what isn’t a waste of money for a pedophile? You know what you really want to have right now? That’s right, a child sex doll, paid for using your own debit card under your legal name, and ordered right to your legal home address for your convenience.[1] You will not be arrested, guaranteed! I swear on my mom’s life! Just do it! Don’t even think twice about it! In fact, I’m so sure you won’t be arrested that you might as well just walk right up to a police officer and say, “I am a pedophile who has partaken in child sexual abuse material for which I could be jailed for many years. The statute of limitations has not expired. It is fully within your authority to arrest me right here and now.” — and the police officer will just think you’re telling a joke, they won’t arrest you! Seriously, don’t listen to people like @whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml, the real idiots are the people who invest in “opsec” instead of just seizing the moment. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. TURN YOURSELF IN. SCUM. — Wow, that was a really weird cough I had there for a minute. What I meant to say was: the world is your oyster, O pedophiles, so make yourselves known! It’s OK!This actually happened in Troms county, Norway, in 2018. ↩︎
Idk if you already know, but the technical details of csam/pedo cases are almost always that level of absurd. The first time i found out about that pattern was the old one where they were unencrypted smtp on port 25 emailing file attachments between each other using isp provided emails (like bobjones@charter.com) and some intern was cleaning out old attachments on the email server and turned them in.
E: oh yeah, and it wasn’t even a case of some pencil neck opening up the attachments as he “deleted” them, the file name itself was an admission of guilt.