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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Anybody know of a VPN service that

  • Allows port forwarding (i.e. you can run a bittorrent client and accept incoming connections)
  • Allows connections using the Wireguard protocol
  • Doesn't have Israeli ownership
  • Isn't owned by fascists
  • Has exit nodes around the world, with a decent number of options and good speeds

So far, the ones with major problems are:

  • Mullvad is out because of pro-Fascist ownership.
  • CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, ExpressVPN, and Intego are owned by Kape Technologies which is Israeli
[–] grittycat@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm unsure about the whether airvpn is owned by fascists but it seems to fit the rest of your criteria and at least on paper is italian

[–] cmc@lemmy.zerolabs.sh 3 points 1 month ago

Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You know I hear this thing called nord I'm sorry I can't finish without laughing

[–] Ethanol@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

NORD VPN! To protect your phone from being hacked because surely that's what a VPN does! BUY NORD VPN NOW!

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is it about them that's especially bad?

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Bad? Nothing really that I've experienced (because I have no experience) I just like joking about the pervasivenesss of their ads. They're the VPN Shen Yun, so I keep expecting to hear about them being associated with a cult.

[–] pseud@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Njalla is owned by Peter Sunde and almost fits the bill.

Minus the exit nodes around the world.

[–] lemmelemmy@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IVPN is good. https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/#recommended-providers

Idk how this Airvpn suggestions are popping up. Never even heard them before.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've heard of them, but I don't know much about them.

As for IVPN:

IVPN previously supported port forwarding, but removed the option in June 2023. Missing this feature could negatively impact certain applications, especially peer-to-peer applications like torrent clients

[–] Sniatch@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

So it's the same as Mullvad, because they also removed it in 2023.

[–] amos@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think AirVPN fits that criteria, no?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

I don't know, that's why I'm asking.

@amos @merc @grok fact check these. Search.

[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] AliasVortex@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

What's the problem with Gail Slater?

[–] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 1 month ago

ProtonVPN qualifies in my book under these guidelines, but different people are more or less stringent with what they'll tolerate on the fourth requirement you specified.

[–] FoxtrotDeltaTango@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

Try proton vpn I guess