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VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by cmroanirgo »

_8j50 wrote: post #38
yardstick wrote: post #19

Tinfoil hats aside, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the NSA and other intelligence agencies around the world operated VPN service providers as a way to spy on users.

Like they do with Tor nodes?

"Fact-checking the Tor Project's government ties"

> The Tor Project, a private non-profit that underpins the dark web and enjoys cult status among privacy activists, is almost 100% funded by the US government.

https://surveillancevalley.com/blog/fact-checking-the-tor-pr...

https://www.documentcloud.org/public/search/projectid:37206-...

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by GordonS »

notatoad wrote: post #11
legionof7 wrote: post #9

How safe is it to setup a VPN (via Wireguard or something) with AWS?

i can't speak to the safety, but i think you'll find browsing with an AWS IP to be a frustrating experience. Many sites block traffic from known AWS IP ranges in an attempt to prevent scraping or abuse.

I use an Azure VM as a proxy, and don't see many issues. Every now and then Google asks me to do a captcha, and there are literally a handful of sites that do the same.

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by nurettin »

guaka wrote: post #54

Not sure if it really helps when making a choice but here's an extensive overview of 185 VPN services over 30+ factors: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/#simple-vpn-comparison

The point is not to make a choice but to be informed about how the industry is somehow tied together in interesting ways. I would also add that many of these VPN services turn your machine into a drone where you knowingly or unknowingly enter into a contract so that they can sell your bandwidth to paying customers to provide them with randomized IP pools so that they can scrape amazon and alibaba.

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by colemickens »

metildaa wrote: post #8
lighthazard wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tor has a terrible user experience though. You can't just browse without bandwidth woes.

I can load YouTube just fine over Tor

Why is this downvoted? It took less than 30 seconds to fire up Orbot, connect, open YouTube and start streaming a video without any issue or fuss.

Sometimes when people talk about Tor, it reminds me of how people talked about Linux up until a couple years ago - often touting very out-dated impressions as if they were current observations. Tor bandwidth is very different than it was 5-10 years ago.

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by rootw0rm »

mtgx wrote: post #37
yardstick wrote: post #19

Tinfoil hats aside, it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if the NSA and other intelligence agencies around the world operated VPN service providers as a way to spy on users.

Going by their designs in the leaked Snowden documents, you can probably tell which ones are ran by the NSA from the bad website/app UX/UI.

hahaha, so true

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by rootw0rm »

duxup wrote: post #2

Nearly as disturbing as the number of people who tell me they use free VPNs. It is a bit mind boggling that folks are concerned about something and use a VPN...but choose a free one...

when I was at a halfway house in San Diego (corecivic) I used a crappy free VPN a few times. they have their uses.

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by mkasu »

sk0g wrote: post #53
NetOpWibby wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you see Nord in the list?

Citation is required for a claim like that. Edit: I was being sarcastic. Thought it would be obvious.

NordVPN is not in the list[1]

1: https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-2...

Re: VPN owners: 97 VPN products run by 23 companies

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Post by sk0g »

mkasu wrote: post #68
sk0g wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Citation is required for a claim like that. Edit: I was being sarcastic. Thought it would be obvious.

NordVPN is not in the list[1] 1: https://vpnpro.com/blog/hidden-vpn-owners-unveiled-97-vpns-2...

I was being sarcastic haha
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