The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites

[sman]

The Trouble with VPN and Privacy Review Sites

"https://blog.privacytools.io/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-reviews/"

There's a massive problem in the privacy world. Websites, social media accounts, and other platforms are constantly popping up out of nowhere, telling you to buy The Greatest Service Ever in order to solve all your privacy woes, whatever that may be. These websites often employ marketing teams to make sure their "reviews" are what you see first when you begin your research. Some of them are even operated by VPN providers themselves, operating under anonymous business entities to hide their bias, or doing it right out in the open, hoping you'll mistake their advertising-filled press releases and blogs as insider knowledge of the VPN space.

When a seemingly "unbiased review" on a site is merely a paid advertisement in disguise, that website is breaking their reader's trust. From a consumer's point of view, affiliate marketing and other paid promotional techniques like this make it near impossible to know when a review is genuine or not.

Furthermore, their list includes NordVPN, a company notable for not disclosing security breaches in a timely fashion, and ExpressVPN, a provider notable for once using weak 1024-bit encryption keys to protect their users. By any objective standard, these providers do not deserve to be included in a top 10 recommendations list for securing anybody's information. This review site in particular claims to have set criteria for their recommendations, but this just demonstrates that any criteria can be adjusted to fit any goal you may have.

[exile360]

You should find this article informative on the subject.

[sman]

hmm.. All with one mission, to target user activity with different mktg. strategies..