Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN : privacy

[+] c0smokram3r@midwest.social 81 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 58 points 2 years ago

Glad mullvad's not on that list.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 38 points 2 years ago

IIRC, it’s still 100% privately held by the founders, who have no intention of selling up.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 52 points 2 years ago

Needs a longer quote:

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.

So they’re basically evil.

“We are living in an era of tyranny,” Shapiro says in one video endorsing the company, adding:

And far-right shills are mindlessly promoting them.

Evil with a capital evil.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 years ago

I know you aren't calling AVGN or Drew Gooden far-right shills but seeing their names in that list I'd really funny.

[-] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

skimming the text I'm just like "yeah corporation, yeah yeah monopoly, yeah yeah angry video game nerd, yeah yeah WAIT WHAT"

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

It seems like they have VPN services and they don't really care who uses them. Business doing business things

[-] Daze@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

fffffuckkkk, I really liked cyberghost… it always felt very minimal and not in-your-face besides the occasional sale pop-up… time to drop it like it’s hot 😢

What’s the closest safe alternative for my privacy?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

New tagline just dropped: Kape Technologies, the MindGeek of VPN

[-] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

I left Private Internet Access (PIA) for Proton VPN after the Kape acquisition years ago. Still happy with my decision and I recommend Proton VPN to anybody in the market for personal VPN services.

[-] Schlemmy@lemmy.ml 58 points 2 years ago

+1 for Mulvad for what it's worth.

[-] BillyBob1337@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

Also, ProtonVPN has been infiltrated by the WEF.

Thanks to the way back machine we can see that they quietly erased Rosemary Leith's bio of her affiliations with the WEF.

Now why would they do that?

http://web.archive.org/web/20240107014943/https://proton.me/about/team

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Infiltrated" seems like a clandestine action even though they just selected her to be on the board. It's not like her having been on WEF council ("Chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Internet Security") was a secret to people who made her a board member since it's very available info.

Thanks to the way back machine we can see that they quietly erased Rosemary Leith's bio of her affiliations with the WEF.

Now why would they do that?

I think especially right-wingers have made the WEF into some Jewish conspiracy theory and it has taken a life of its own so might just be bad PR. Tbh that seems like the simplest option. You don't want to scare away the potential customers.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I used to use PIA right up to the buyout. Actually had them email me asking why, tried to make assurances that nothing would change, nope I don't trust Kape. Still don't.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

I stuck with PIA, mostly since I had no issues (software, connection wise) and it was just very very cheap

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Users of a vpn tunnel somehow always fail to think of the other end.

[-] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's why you should switch to Tor and I2P

[-] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I wouldn't trust anything these guys publish: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mint-press-news/

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wouldn’t trust anything at MB/FC. I trust Alan Macleod’s work, though. If you want to actually understand the media, he wrote a book on it: Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent.

[-] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

He edited that book, didn't write it, but okay, I like him too. His work on propaganda about Venezuela is fantastic.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago

He edited that book, didn’t write it

It’s essentially a compilation of articles, and he wrote or co-wrote about half of them.

[-] Pherenike@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Oh, I see. Sorry.

[-] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works -3 points 2 years ago

But I love getting my news from far-left conspiracy theorists.

[-] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Came here expecting to see Nord. Glad I didn't.

[-] WreckingBANG@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 years ago

Why glad? They are also pretty bad. You also should not use them. They had a databreach and kept it a secret.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 7 points 2 years ago

This. Why the heck would anyone use Nord VPN?

[-] steventhedev@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago

Holy propaganda batman!

The list of articles on that website is...extremely focused on one subject only.

[+] kugmo@sh.itjust.works -16 points 2 years ago

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[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Israel is not "The Jews". The biggest money coming into Israel is coming from Christians. And loads of Jews are anti-zionists

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