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Funnily enough Windscribe did an article on this:

- https://kumu.io/Windscribe/vpn-relationships

- https://windscribe.com/vpnmap

The main two that parent poster would be talking about would be "Kape Technologies" and "Ziff Davis VPNs".

We also did an article in 2019 https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2019/11/20/the-troubl...

They do a lot of astro-turfing with "review websites" that aren't actually independent at all.

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Any idea why there hasn’t been much if any enforcement from the FTC and co about the sketchy VPN review blogs? Seems like especially Lina Khan’s FTC would be interested to find a way, because giving the impression of an independent review and then adding a little “actually we’re extremely biased” disclaimer somewhere doesn’t seem like it should be acceptable. They might be offshore, but they do plenty of business with US creators.

Mullvad very rarely (if ever) get mentioned on vpn review sites. So I've used them for the last several years.

And they're doing print advertising!

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