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The entire VPN industry is really shady. Their marketing is entirely based on creating literal FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) and sell their service as the perfect and cheap solution. The presence they have on youtube ads and other mainstream platform ads is really disturbing.

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I hear what you're saying but that generalization isn't fair.

Check out IVPN for instance. They do a lot of things right:

https://www.ivpn.net/ethics/

Mullvad doesn’t do this, most providers do but I agree that this generalization is unfair to the VPN being discussed here.

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