Thanks for the unbiased, helpful article, vpnmentor.com!
Yea, there’s a TON of fake VPN “review” websites out there, with VPN Mentor here being one that shows up allot in searches. They usually always have the same three to five VPN companies as their “top recommend” VPNs. It’s likely that these companies likely paid the review site to be in that spot.
To quote /u/thatoneprivacyguy 's website (in his “Choosing a VPN” page):
You may have started your search for a VPN by looking for “VPN Reviews” in your search engine of choice. if you had, you would have gotten page upon page of what seem to be harmless review sites, top 10 or blog style reviews of different VPN services. You may even be coming here for confirmation of what you were told on those sites. The sites making these recommendations are, in almost every case, paid by the services they review and recommend. They are beginning their business relationship with you, with what essentially amounts to a lie. The technical term for this kind of marketing is “native advertising” and it’s abuse is a huge problem in the VPN industry.
This subreddit also has a page on false reviews here: https://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/wiki/beware_of_false_reviews
The whole homepage is not very trustworthy even if they write a lot about VPN’s. See for example this article:
Affiliate programs VPN
They have ads on torrents too
https://www.skadligkod.se/vpn/the-trustworthy-of-vpn-review-sites-and-how-affiliate-programs-affects-their-opinion/ Don’t use VPNMentor. It’s heavily biased.
What a fuck all way of sharing an article
Kinda like video game review sites advertisers being the same companies whos games they review… Every game gets 7+ of 10 and almost never lower… Weird.