Known Malware Distributor Kape Technologies Now Owns ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, Zenmate, and a Collection of VPN “Review” Websites
didnt this happen years ago or has my perspective on time completely shattered again
The whole VPN market aways sounded kind of shady to me
so are there any good vpns left or was it all just a scam?
Yeah, these YouTubers might need to look for other sponsors for a bit…
Raid shadow legends: “Finally, it’s my time to sh-”
Manscaped: (German suplex RSL) “STAY DOWN, MOTHERFUCKER!”
Thank you for this! I had no idea my VPN company was owned by a malware company. I’ll be making a switch to another service
Well, that’s not good.
RIP to the wallets of creators who respect their fanbases.
I don’t know if they track/log anything, but the Mozilla foundation has a VPN if anyone here used to use ExpressVPN or PIA
I haven’t heard of 90% of these things. Then again the constant ads for express vpn has made he ignore the entire type of program out of spite
So ExpressVPN talked a good talk and was great to use. But now I need to try something else. Because not only is the privacy trust completely stripped away. But any penny spent now will go to Isreal and help them do more human rights violations.
and once again my philosophy of “if an internet personality advertises it, its a bad product” rings true
Oh damn, I did work for one of their review sites for a few months (they had other departments besides VPN reviews, I worked in those). It was pretty shady even before Kape bought them, but it got worse after. They ended up terminating my contract for reasons I’m still not clear on. Didn’t know Kape distributed malware. Glad I don’t do work for them anymore.
Every VPN company that pays “content creators” to advertise (read: proselytize) for them is immediately worth disregarding, so this comes as no surprise. I’m sure there are other ways to imitate other regions if that’s all you need.
my friend uses expressvpn
Well, well. How the turntables…
“A collection of VPN review websites” had me howling, not gonna lie.
Stop assuming you can buy safety everyone.
I saw a report about this weeks ago and then another article commenting on this. According to the other article, for people just casually using VPN’s to get around region-locking, it should still be fine, but VPN’s in general were never going to be a reliable source of complete internet security. The writer also notes that the malware distribution was something that occurred further in the past with Kape, and if they were to try pulling this again, they’d basically be committing suicide.
most of these happened years ago, ExpressVPN was pretty recent
About the only thing they’re good for is avoiding regional content blocks.
They are otherwise security theater. Strictly speaking about subscription based VPNs obviously, not personal (to home network) or corporate (to work) VPNs.
I tried using a VPN to circumvent Spotify region locking (Nord, specifically), and while it worked as well as I could reasonably expect it to, it just made my regular internet browsing so fucking slow.