cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8915892
(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
If you’re looking for a replacement and don’t actually need the privacy/anonymity then ivpn might be a good choice. You can screw it up and set up an account that can’t possibly by as safe as mullvad but if you’re careful and know what you’re doing you can also get damn close to it. Theoretically.
But if it matters it’s probably time to reup mullvad with a new account id and cash through the mail instead of whatever they refunded you through.
ivpn lacks servers in the southern hemisphere. I have spoken with them (their customer service appears to be good), and they plan a server in new zealand, but no idea when.
I could/might trial them, but server lack/distance is likely to be an issue.
Were I in the northern hemisphere, they would probably be top of the list.
If you can tolerate using crypto instead of cash, ovpn has Singapore servers and that’s close.
If you could be careful with your account information and send cash you could probably make proton work, they got lots of servers where you need them. You’d have to resist the temptation to add some newfangled service though.
Ngl between your reply to me and others you sound like the kind of person who should stick with mullvad.
I only recently started using the mullvad application as opposed to configs and maybe it’s because I was on configs for so long or maybe it’s mullvads app quality being better than average but I’ve been impressed with it across all platforms.
Not sure why you say that, but yes, mullvad (until now) was the only company ticking the boxes
ivpn and airvpn seem the only others who are close to it, but both also have significant issues for me. I have looked into a lot of alternatives, and ‘resources’ the last couple of years.’
Northern hemisphere this would be much easier.
I have used servers in many countries in the past with poor results. New Zealand is the ideal for me (it’s not an ideal world of course).
My base internet is approx 100Mbps, speed drops are noticeable these days, even though 30Mbps was easily decent enough in the past.
Singapore is always an option (one of few), but would need to be tested.
ovpn is not linux friendly,I believe they have an app for ubuntu, but nothing else. Can of course do manual settings, but ytf should I?
I really would have liked to have been able to use mullvad for a few years at least, only switched over form proton last year, and only switched to proton because my previous vpn compnay vanished with my money.
What is wrong with iVPN? They are also no logs and take cash as far as I can tell. Them and AirVPN seem like solid alternatives.
southern hemisphere = lack of servers. airvpn does have some servers in new zealand so they are okay in this regard
ivpn has servers in australia, which to me are pointless due to australian internet laws, they currently have no servers in new zealand.
linux = airvpn gui is a long way past needing updating, and does not even have split tunnelling. can do manual or cli instead though… just would rather not.
ivpn gui will not even install on my system, with an error I have never seen, tied into some dependency which a quick search of appears to have a long history of security vulnerabilities.
Still following these threads hoping for another alternative to these 2
I have used ivpn in the past. I currently use air for port forwarding stuff.
There is nothing “wrong” with ivpn. You can, if you’re careful, avoid setting up an account, associating an email, choose a limited set of services and pay with cash and get, theoretically, what you get with mullvad.
The difference is that with mullvad it’s much harder to do something you didn’t know was a problem. That’s not a thing that’s “wrong” with i. Lots of people expect to be able to log in to their account and recover their password with an email and use a bunch of additional nice apps and services like what i offers. That’s not wrong.
I said theoretically above and above that because i has not been under the same degree of scrutiny as mullvad. So it’s kind of like the veteran choosing a dented shield over a newly built one because “i know this one has stopped a blow”.
Air is… a piracy vpn. An eagle eyed user is expected to read between the lines to understand that and understand what it means.