• 乇ㄥ乇¢ㄒ尺ㄖ@infosec.pub
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      5 months ago

      Sun is speaking from a privacy perspective, and he’s basically saying don’t blindly trust your VPN provider, almost all cybersecurity researchers agree on this, Sparks is not a security researcher, he’s a VPN reviewer ( and I watched his content for 2 years now ), he reviews VPN mostly from a user/customer perspective not from a privacy and Security perspective, meaning he cares about giving you the best VPN in terms or pricing, speed, how many servers are available, umm … Features such as split tunneling, adblocking… Being cross Platform, heck even the payment method must be easy… This is Not what a privacy minded individual should look for when reviewing a VPN… According to Tom Sparks nowadays the best VPN deal is from TorGuard… Yes they seem Privacy minded ( but their product is proprietary so how can you trust it )

      I stopped watching Sparks reviews because A - he ran out of Content months ago, B - he started giving bad takes such as the ones in this video

      Mullvad advocating for online privacy being their marketing strategy!! ( seriously! seriously!! )

      Why would NordVPN a company that’s worth billions of dollars be a honeypot? ( yeah Facebook is trillion dollar company and they used a VPN app as a honeypot, Big companies can be honeypots, surprise, surprise )

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        I agree that Tom Spark does not have the best takes, mainly him showing some hatred towards Mullvad, but he still has valid criticisms of this video

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      I’m not doing anything illegal, why do you care if I hide or not???

      If we want to meet the original straw man head to head.

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      5 months ago

      If you’ve got something you’re that worried about keeping private, go home, and break everything with a computer chip, a radio/network. Because if it’s not listening now, it’s only an update away.