From bd0c1dc65fe619d17e716b5a3b454f2bb1f3bf59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Freddy Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:18:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Replaced Reddit links with original source --- docs/posts/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-review-sites.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/posts/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-review-sites.md b/docs/posts/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-review-sites.md index f1758c0..d40717b 100644 --- a/docs/posts/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-review-sites.md +++ b/docs/posts/the-trouble-with-vpn-and-privacy-review-sites.md @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ To their credit, this review site also helpfully included an advertising disclos _Hmm_. Look familiar? Of the 73 providers this site had reviewed at the time of writing this article, **all eight** of the VPN providers paying this review site happened to make their top 10 recommendations. In fact, you’d have to scroll down to #6 before you found a provider that wouldn’t pay them, practically buried. -Furthermore, their list includes NordVPN, a company [notable for not disclosing security breaches](https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/dl2m7b/nordvpn_confirms_one_of_their_finland_data_center/) in a timely fashion, and ExpressVPN, a provider [notable for using weak 1024-bit encryption keys](https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/some-providers-use-weak-1024-bit-keys-vyprvpn-explains-why-its-strong-keys-matter) 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. +Furthermore, their list includes NordVPN, a company [notable for not disclosing security breaches](https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/) in a timely fashion, and ExpressVPN, a provider [notable for using weak 1024-bit encryption keys](https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/some-providers-use-weak-1024-bit-keys-vyprvpn-explains-why-its-strong-keys-matter) 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. If these sites truly wanted to be helpful, they would consolidate all the relevant information and present it to their users without making the choice for them. A provider is going to be better or worse for every user depending on their particular situation, and encouraging making an informed choice between options presented equally is far more beneficial to putting one over the other in a largely arbitrary fashion.