they were all owned by the same company and sold to Kape, which has ties to the Israeli intelligence service, a few years back.
The issue is who he sold it to – the notorious creator of some pernicious data-huffing ad-ware, Crossrider. The UK-based company was cofounded by an ex-Israeli surveillance agent and a billionaire previously convicted of insider trading who was later named in the Panama Papers. It produced software which previously allowed third-party developers to hijack users’ browsers via malware injection, redirect traffic to advertisers and slurp up private data.
I personally use perfect-privacy, which didn’t turn up any red flags when I did research a few years ago. it’s a little lacking in features but openvpn isn’t that hard to set up on linux & android. no clue how well their desktop app works.
Mullvad is what I use, haven’t heard of any controversies with them.
I used to use Mullvad but switched because PIA was cheaper and a looooot of sites and apps were blocking me when I used Mullvad.
Fuck you Wendys I don’t want to turn off my VPN on work wifi just to order food
Seconding Mullvad, you can send them an envelope of cash or buy a code off amazon if you really care about it that much. Technically they’re in a 14 eyes country but no one here is important enough to worry about that.
there are too many eyes
The only problem is that they don’t support port forwarding, so if you’re a serious torrent person that can be disqualifying.
I torrent with mullvad, it seeds fine.
But it would seed better with port forwarding, as all VPNs would. Which is the point.