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Here's one bang on subject for example. The company that won the bid to formalise digital IDs donating directly to the party members responsible for choosing in favour of them. 6 states are trying to link porn sites to a digital driving licence. So porn habits and identity are linked for example.

If you need port forwarding or other fringe uses then not so much but you can't go wrong with how well they stick by their guns and by who they choose to associate with.

The top right feature the last remaining indies who for better or worse are the last remaining folks holding onto any kind of standards. Corporate VPNs use tons of marketing tracking, affiliate marketing, and skewer the discussion to suit their profits over all else.

Kape for example have been on a buying spree over the past few years so now all those VPNs tout whatever line is set from above.

There's 100% a difference between a billion dollar corporate owner vs indies. As well as the amount of spend that goes into affiliate marketing.

If you have any other suggestions I'm more than happy to look into them and start getting them updated. This has been a passion project of my own for the past few years so I'm really grateful for any other feedback.

I made this while in China: https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/pp39xi/the_2021_c...

Was based there 4 years so got very familiar with the VPN scene over there so if you have any questions let me know! I found for gaming for example you can't beat local VPNs for latency. No western operation can compete with that.

Say you want a new pair of headphones. You'll probably do something like this.

1. Search Google & look for forum/reddit threads talking about specific brands.

2. Look for those brands for further reviews, feedback, and price comparisons.

3. You will come across a review that has links to the "best price".

4. By clicking that link if you purchase that product then, or within 15-30 days (depends on the affiliate agreement) the affiliate will earn commission.

That's why big corps work with media companies. They make hundreds of thousands per month via affiliate commissions alone.

This induces a large amount of biases as media sites always recommend their affiliates over non-affiliates.

"SentinelLabs researchers have discovered that a Chinese APT group known as Bronze Starlight has been signing off malware with a valid certificate. This certificate is used by Ivacy VPN, and the hackers' target is the gambling industry in Southeast Asia."

Honestly, what's your use case?

There is of course times like when the Two Sessions are in order and nothing worked.

The reference article for the map itself with key updates & findings: https://blog.windscribe.com/the-vpn-relationship-map-2023/

Hope they pull it off.

Anyone care to chime in with their caveats to some of these?

I don't think the generative AI results they're going to do will be much better either.

This post though has made me annoyed as DP is clearly the better standard.

However it's being handled though I think the gesture is pretty nice in general. A ton of WeVPN customers were about to lose their money and for some people in restricted countries losing VPN access can be a hell of a blow.

When in Shanghai for example being able to jump across like this would have been pretty handy. As opposed when one that I used went down I had massive issues trying to get back online as other VPNs were being super restricted.

Each to their own.

Nah no acquisition.

https://discord.com/channels/435955361955053579/435955361955...

They also paid as much as several of these put together for the marketing/affiliate websites Webselence, VPNmentor, Safety Detectives. Which shows how much money must be in these affiliate programs.

Though it's anyone's guess what has happened as service over time had deteriorated quite drastically.