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Seeing as those that fall for online scams, hacks, and breaches tend to be the elderly - I hope the punishment is as severe as it can get.

Which I hope they do, because they're scummy companies that shouldn't exist. But seeing as they do the people involved should be strung up

Makes sense to be fair. People only think of personal quick gains over long term generational games as has been shown time and time again

I would love it just as a screen for things like Slack or Discord as I'm on the move a lot :D

Cheers mate! Will see to them too :D

Mullvad are absolutely the GOAT for most people so that's fair.

If you need port forwarding or other fringe uses then not so much but you can't go wrong with how well they stick by their guns and by who they choose to associate with.

The top right feature the last remaining indies who for better or worse are the last remaining folks holding onto any kind of standards. Corporate VPNs use tons of marketing tracking, affiliate marketing, and skewer the discussion to suit their profits over all else.

Kape for example have been on a buying spree over the past few years so now all those VPNs tout whatever line is set from above.

Nah some VPNs allow you to rent a "residential" I.P which is shared by 5-15 people tops. They're rarely caught up or get flagged. This was in 2021 however so can't comment on the effectiveness rn

Top right my guy, with the same treatment as others.

There's 100% a difference between a billion dollar corporate owner vs indies. As well as the amount of spend that goes into affiliate marketing.

IVPN are studs of the industry, no doubt. Very serious folk working hard on sticking to their privacy principles - rare today for sure!

I'm the author of the map and I'll get those updates on there now, the Mozilla node was actually hidden (as I need to update the corp info) and there's other corrections I'm making now.

If you have any other suggestions I'm more than happy to look into them and start getting them updated. This has been a passion project of my own for the past few years so I'm really grateful for any other feedback.

Affiliate campaigns! So basically you'll see in review articles for everything a link with a ton of fluff and tracking in it.

Say you want a new pair of headphones. You'll probably do something like this.

1. Search Google & look for forum/reddit threads talking about specific brands.

2. Look for those brands for further reviews, feedback, and price comparisons.

3. You will come across a review that has links to the "best price".

4. By clicking that link if you purchase that product then, or within 15-30 days (depends on the affiliate agreement) the affiliate will earn commission.

That's why big corps work with media companies. They make hundreds of thousands per month via affiliate commissions alone.

This induces a large amount of biases as media sites always recommend their affiliates over non-affiliates.

I like the idea that their grandmother has a zero-trust relationship with them regarding tech lol

It depends on what you're doing but the ones in green to the top right are independents but IVACY recently have suffered an issue. If you have issues with the corporate owners you can avoid them by seeing who the parent is and who they own.

"SentinelLabs researchers have discovered that a Chinese APT group known as Bronze Starlight has been signing off malware with a valid certificate. This certificate is used by Ivacy VPN, and the hackers' target is the gambling industry in Southeast Asia."

Honestly, what's your use case?