this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
74 points (100.0% liked)

Privacy

789 readers
38 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

"Kape Technologies is a major player in the online privacy world, one of the three giants that collectively control the market. It owns many of the world’s top VPNs, including ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, ZenMate, Intego Antivirus, and a host of tech websites that promote its products. Kape brands can be seen sponsoring a wide array of public figures, such as Tucker Carlson, Angry Video Game Nerd, Drew Gooden, Lex Fridman, Cody Ko, Uncle Roger, and Ben Shapiro."

"(Kape Technologies) It also bought a host of VPN review sites, such as vpnMentor and Wizcase – platforms that purport to supply readers with expert information about which VPN would be best for them. vpnMentor insists that this considerable conflict of interest does not affect their ratings."

What do you think of all this?

top 23 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] chottomatte@lemdro.id 34 points 2 months ago

The fact that all of these softwares are owned by one company is creepy , regardless of Israel

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

MintPress News is pro-Iran, Syria and Russia (Wikipedia). But that doesn't mean what they say here is false, just that we should approach it with our critical faculties working.

[–] d4rko 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Good to know, thanks for sharing. I didn't know about this,. It shows that is really hard to be correctly informed without dedicating an extra effort on many steps of the privacy way.

[–] Caliper 4 points 2 months ago

I looked at the other articles on the site and that already caused some red flags. Then looked at the wiki and saw the same thing.

[–] 0xD@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

What was the comment? That the source is untrustworthy? Why was it removed?

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Says rule 1 in the modlog.

Didn’t seem like it was bigoted, but the comment claimed the news source was pro-Iran and pro Syria or something with a Wikipedia link as evidence.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My comment was just advising people to be media-literate and consider the source, though I also said that this in itself doesn't make the article questionable (I actually think it's quite credible). And I linked to Wikipedia's article about this news website. I wasn't trying to defend Israel or be controversial, and it was a bit of a surprise to see this get deleted.

[–] bloodfart@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

All mods are cops

[–] tkw8@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If you aren’t using either proton vpn, Mullvad or ivpn, you’re asking for trouble imo.

[–] muix@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Add Njalla to that list

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

i use windscribe is that good?

[–] tkw8@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m not a fan of any but those I mentioned.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago
[–] Caliper 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There is a lot of shady intelligence coming from Israel, there’s enough evidence. But this news outlet isn’t very credible to me. So to avoid ending up in a misinformation rabbit hole, I’m going to agree with @floofloof@lemmy.ca here. Proceed with caution.

[–] ReversalHatchery 12 points 2 months ago

What do you think of all this?

I expected this from ExpressVPN and PIA, and I think Kappe was already known doing very shady things, but it's a good reminder, and also there are most probably people who didn't know yet

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No, they don't. Because I don't use a shitty VPN provider.

Also the article doesn't load

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Is your Nord VPN on? /S

Edit: Forgot this was sarcasm

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I don't use JavaScript or Nord VPN

[–] terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Was being sarcastic 🤣

[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

I use Njalla, which is part of Pirate Bay. Problem solved.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

What do you think of all this?

Is it a rhetorical question?

[–] sploodged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

do not the vpn

[–] S13Ni@lemmy.studio 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not particularly surprised. My tinfoil hat headcanon is that most VPNs, messengers and whatever security measures, especially the most popular ones, are some kind of surveillance fronts.