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Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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Re: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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Post by bilegeek »

justapassenger wrote: post #8

Is there any other real world usecases for VPN nowadays other than: 1. Getting access to geolocked data 2. Torrenting "Linux ISOs" ?

3. Hosting websites with DDNS (though the abuse from that caused Mullvad and IVPN to drop port forwarding)

4. Though it hurts anonymity, and is relatively rare: I2P or Hyphanet, because some websites block known P2P nodes[1]. Important if your bank or work is being a jerk about it.

5. As ThatMedicIsASpy notes, ISP issues: some routers soil the bed from P2P, some ISP's throttle P2P traffic regardless of legality, etc.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/tc3bhs/is_anybody_else...

Re: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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Post by zer0tonin »

justapassenger wrote: post #8

Is there any other real world usecases for VPN nowadays other than: 1. Getting access to geolocked data 2. Torrenting "Linux ISOs" ?

Those two are pretty big already to be honest. I guess a third one would be avoiding eavesdropping on public wi-fis.

Re: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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Post by lyu07282 »

elorant wrote: post #9
plmpsu wrote: post #4

Just pay for and use Mullvad.

I do and I like them, but Cloudflare blocks their ips aggressively.

Reddit too, I wished they offered residential or dedicated and/or unlisted ips. But most of the time you just have to cycle through different ips to unblock.

Re: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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Post by 0x073 »

justapassenger wrote: post #8

Is there any other real world usecases for VPN nowadays other than: 1. Getting access to geolocked data 2. Torrenting "Linux ISOs" ?

Free wifi hotspots

Nowadays most traffic is tls encrypted, but there are still metadata that can be collected.

Re: Who owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN relationships explained (2024)

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Post by octo888 »

Are we allowed to discuss (edit: if it's not too political?) if Kape Technologies has any connections to Israeli security services, given the nature of VPNs and given the amount of data that can be trivially collected, and:

"Being from Israel, Teddy Sagi had connections with the Israeli military intelligence sphere and was able to procure himself a real-life cyber spy [his co-founder] from the famed Unit 8200 (kinda like Israel’s version of the NSA)" [0]

?

[0] https://windscribe.com/blog/what-is-kape-technologies/

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