“Kape Technologies is a major player in the online privacy world, one of the three giants that collectively control the market. It owns many of the world’s top VPNs, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products. Kape brands can be seen sponsoring a wide array of public figures, such as Tucker Carlson, Angry Video Game Nerd, Drew Gooden, Lex Fridman, Cody Ko, Uncle Roger, and Ben Shapiro.”
“(Kape Technologies) It also bought a host of VPN review sites, such as vpnMentor and Wizcase – platforms that purport to supply readers with expert information about which VPN would be best for them. vpnMentor insists that this considerable conflict of interest does not affect their ratings.”
What do you think of all this?
The fact that all of these softwares are owned by one company is creepy , regardless of Israel
MintPress News is pro-Iran, Syria and Russia (Wikipedia). But that doesn’t mean what they say here is false, just that we should approach it with our critical faculties working.
Good to know, thanks for sharing. I didn’t know about this,. It shows that is really hard to be correctly informed without dedicating an extra effort on many steps of the privacy way.
I looked at the other articles on the site and that already caused some red flags. Then looked at the wiki and saw the same thing.
What was the comment? That the source is untrustworthy? Why was it removed?
Says rule 1 in the modlog.
Didn’t seem like it was bigoted, but the comment claimed the news source was pro-Iran and pro Syria or something with a Wikipedia link as evidence.
My comment was just advising people to be media-literate and consider the source, though I also said that this in itself doesn’t make the article questionable (I actually think it’s quite credible). And I linked to Wikipedia’s article about this news website. I wasn’t trying to defend Israel or be controversial, and it was a bit of a surprise to see this get deleted.
All mods are cops
If you aren’t using either proton vpn, Mullvad or ivpn, you’re asking for trouble imo.
Add Njalla to that list
i use windscribe is that good?
I’m not a fan of any but those I mentioned.
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There is a lot of shady intelligence coming from Israel, there’s enough evidence. But this news outlet isn’t very credible to me. So to avoid ending up in a misinformation rabbit hole, I’m going to agree with @floofloof@lemmy.ca here. Proceed with caution.
What do you think of all this?
I expected this from ExpressVPN and PIA, and I think Kappe was already known doing very shady things, but it’s a good reminder, and also there are most probably people who didn’t know yet
No, they don’t. Because I don’t use a shitty VPN provider.
Also the article doesn’t load
Is your Nord VPN on? /S
Edit: Forgot this was sarcasm
I don’t use JavaScript or Nord VPN
Was being sarcastic 🤣
I use Njalla, which is part of Pirate Bay. Problem solved.
do not the vpn
I’m not particularly surprised. My tinfoil hat headcanon is that most VPNs, messengers and whatever security measures, especially the most popular ones, are some kind of surveillance fronts.