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- Mullvad VPN was considered a perfect privacy-focused company until its co-CEO Daniel Berntsson donated 5 million SEK to the ethnonationalist Örebro Party.
- The donation, which made up 72% of the party's income in 2025, contradicts Mullvad's ideals of a free and open society and has sparked user backlash and employee departures.
- Mullvad responded by calling the donation a private act of free speech unrelated to the company and offered refunds, but critics argue it undermines trust.
- The author switched to IVPN due to its strong ethics and trustworthiness, while considering and rejecting Proton VPN and Windscribe for various flaws.
- To regain trust, Mullvad should remove Berntsson as co-CEO, though the author is skeptical this will happen.