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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2026
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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.
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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party
btw I live in Sweden and until today I have never heard of these nutjobs
There's a take in there somewhere, about "dark web"-like online communities and how they form too thin a social fabric to keep people accountable and aligned with a common good, so personal grievances and economic incentives take over.
Someone probably already wrote it up better than I could bother.
apparently being a VPN provider is either brainrot inducing or induced by brainrot, there is no 3rd option
The third option is to exit the market. The underlying issue is that, regardless of how much effort one puts into cultivating non-criminal customers, VPN services will appear to attract criminals, and the optics alone is sufficient to dramatically limit and shape the pool of customers. Source: I operated some least-authority encrypted storage (I provably can't read private customer data) from like 2016-2019 and my peer group thought I was facilitating criminals. Ironically, I left that peer group because they wouldn't stop platforming Bitcoiners.
That must have been a trip
anyone got any recommendations for an alternative vpn?
I looked at AirVPN and didn't find anything too weird yet.
@gerikson @BlueMonday1984 I had heard *a lot* of good about them, used and recommended them. But no more @mullvadnet for me.
well fuck :|