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NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]

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Re: NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]

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I'm not directly accusing you of anything, but you sort of come across as a shill or extreme fanboy of TorGuard. How can you give them 5s across the board? -Speed: During my testing with PIA and TorGuard, PIA was consistently 50% faster. -App: The TorGuard app is lacking in features and poorly designed. -Price: It's substantially more expensive than most providers. -Reputation: They've had not too great a reputation…

Yeah, to still give them 5 stars for reputation after this whole lawsuit fiasco, is absurd. The apps are mediocre at best, rated just 3.1/5: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/torguard-anonymous-vpn-servi... , so if nothing else his app score is clear evidence of him being impartial. According to comments on his review they've also added Google trackers/capchas to their login page, something you wouldn't see on a reputa…

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Re: NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]

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Oh trust me, I'm well aware of "VPN providers". Just checkout luminati.io . See how they offer an SDK so "You can offer the user a choice between advertisements or a bit of background data usage"? I asked, and they are only interested in partners with 100k active users a month. Right, like a legitimate company with that many users is going to use luminati. Or oxylabs.io who I think owns luminati? I'm also aware that…

More on how luminati and other "residential ip" providers work here: https://medium.com/@xianghangmi/resident-evil-understanding-...

Wow, that's a good read.

Re: NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]

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It's not a YouTube comment. It's my entire channel. They want me to remove NordVPN videos like this one: https://youtu.be/xxwvAjmNec8

The plot thickens.. I mean... How are you involved? Why would NordVPN allegedly blackmail TorGuard to get you to stop posting negative things? What leverage does TorGuard have over you?

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Re: NordVPN sued by Torguard for blackmail [pdf]

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Stick with the big players, PIA, airvpn. I trust those two.

At the end of the day they're mostly just fancy OpenVPN profiles. The entire space is fishy AF IMO. I'm thankful that linustechtips seems to evaluate their VPN sponsors at least. I believe they dropped tunnelbear in favor of PIA because of similar concerns.

Tunnelbear was acquired and all sponsorship dropped, he actually mentioned it on one of the derbauer overclocking posts from Computex this past week.

PIA has cross pollination with IP blocks owned by Micfo subsidiaries as well. They're all like 2 degrees away from each other.

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