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[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago*

Relevant:

Map Legend

Red - Corporate Relationship &amp; Ownership
Orange - Paid Relationship or Paid Affiliates (Dashes)
Blue - Cooperation or Partnership (These companies may share staff, resources, networks, or facilities with one another).
Purple - Corporate Media Relationship &amp; Ownership
Brown - Legal Dispute
Hover over nodes to highlight relationships
Use right-click to focus on select areas

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[–] nevernevermore@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is an awesome visualisation, but the subtitle is the best part

aka "THE WHO'S FUCKING WHO"

[–] infinipurple@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

This cracked me up also aha

https://web.archive.org/web/20200201174816/https://vpnscam.com/tesonet-data-mining-company-owns-nordvpn-protonmail-protonvpn/

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[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

edit: format

edit2: Proton 2019

edit3: more proton info 2019

edit4: Private Internet Access 2019

Anyone know more?

A lot of people use EVPN, they should know:

Fuck... Proton is out also.

Tesonet Data Mining Company Linked to NordVPN, Protonmail, ProtonVPN

https://web.archive.org/web/20190318213020/https://cryptome.org/2015/11/protonmail-ddos.htm

Private Internet Access also out

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21584958

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[–] Wolverine6154@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Proton responded to the Tesonet thing when that was a big issue, can't remember what was said but I was satisfied enough with their response to continue using them

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https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn_and_tesonet/

[–] zerodawn@leaf.dance 17 points 2 years ago

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[–] infinipurple@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Update: Thanks to @JoyfulCodingGuy@lemmy.ml below for clearing up the Proton confusion. I'm glad they can still be trusted.

Original message: Proton being out is devastating. Why does everything go to shit?

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[–] ogeist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Greed.

Follow me for more obvious answers.

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[–] infinipurple@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Lmao yep of course. It just sucks that we can't ever have anything nice.

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[–] JoyfulCodingGuy@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Like another person said they resolved to that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/8ww4h2/protonvpn_and_tesonet/

I guess you decide if you like the response or not but that was a long time ago as well. 🙂

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[–] infinipurple@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago

That's actually very interesting and reassuring. Thank you very much indeed for the insight–I can continue to use Proton in peace.

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[–] bobman@unilem.org 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why do you keep linking to ycombinator and not the actual article?

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com [S] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Primary sauce and discussion too for context. I added the link in comment to the direct map

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[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

hackernews has some good discussions and the source is right there. I see it as a bonus, if it was reddit I would feel differently.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

A lot of the top VPNs on here as well as less known VPNs seem to have much less connections.

(protonVPN, Mullvad, and PrivateVPN for example).

Cool site! Though it isn't too good on mobile because it forces the map into a window 1/4 od the screen size 😅

[–] athos77@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So what's a good VPN these days? Torrent support not needed, just want a little privacy.

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[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Mullvad is looking pretty good. You can even sign up for them through FirefoxVPN and then you're also supporting Mozilla.

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[–] JoyfulCodingGuy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

I personally use Mullvad and love it but it is not conducive to helping seed due to port forwarding being blocked.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

I use Mullvad. The map says its only relationship is a sisterhood with Firefox VPN (they use the same servers, but different software).

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[–] LazyKoala@feddit.de -5 points 2 years ago

Surfshark worked well for me for a long time. Lots of servers, works well for unlocking region blocked content and it's pretty cheap. If you're into full privacy, I recently moved to AirVPN who accept payment through crypto, so you don't have to hand over user data except for an email (which doesn't have to be a real one, you can delete it later).

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[–] Xianshi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Torrenting is one thing but I wouldn't be trusting a VPN to protect from anything to attract the heat of the law or government.

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I assume the more money they spend on advertising the more dubious and low quality they are, this seems to be the case most of the time I see ads for almost any product. Might as well be a red flag at this point.