#kape also merged with private internet access so there's another vpn teddy effectively owns
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kaiserin-belladonna · 9 months ago
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Reblog and share and boycott.
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Boycott ExpressVPN
#reblogging 'cause i've seen more expressvpn sponsorships lately#not mentioned is that kape bought a vpn review site the same year it bought expressvpn#or that teddy's previous start up was used to inject malware and spyware onto people's computers#because it was designed to inject personalized ads and they 'couldn't keep up' with removing the malware#he was also named in the panama papers#though now it looks like the review site has been reworked to 'connect [traffic] with the brands they need'#but it also owns and opperates vpnmentor and surprise surprise expressvpn#is the editors choice vpn and you get a special discount if you subscribe to it through them#kape also merged with private internet access so there's another vpn teddy effectively owns#i'm sure there's more if one were to dig into it given the guy's a billionaire and has been systematically buying up vpns#and internet advertising companies#oh and there it is#got a huge time-limited offer to get expressvpn on this supposedly independent review site#and i assume there's something fishy there 'cause i only whitelisted the site itself temporarily#ads are still blocked from everything else and javascript is also blocked#looks like i was right 'cause the tracking link on it helpfully says it's from the totally not biased site#but it looks like they're trying to hide they own vpnmentor#on the current site they just talk about their 'review sites' and how their 'review sites were featured on' various sites and fox news#but if you look at the site before they were bought out that section was about#how the company owns vpnmentor and that's their customer-facing side while webselenese is the business-focused side#plus it says in the advertising disclosure and about page that they're owned by kape technologies#also that kape owns expressvpn and cyberghost and zenmate and private internet access#but that totally doesn't make them biased about it /s#teddy also served time for insider trading#supposedly crossrider shut down and leadership was overhauled but teddy was still owner#and it was erlichman who said it was rebranding as he was ceo of the company that was rebranding from being infamous with malware#to the point security companies talked about it by name and warned about it#because they were now focused on privacy and security as a company and didn't want that to follow them#even though some of the top names and connections hadn't changed one bit#geez this went from a 'oh a tumblr post to look up'
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zatdummesmadchen · 9 months ago
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Boycott ExpressVPN
#reblogging 'cause i've seen more expressvpn sponsorships lately#not mentioned is that kape bought a vpn review site the same year it bought expressvpn#or that teddy's previous start up was used to inject malware and spyware onto people's computers#because it was designed to inject personalized ads and they 'couldn't keep up' with removing the malware#he was also named in the panama papers#though now it looks like the review site has been reworked to 'connect [traffic] with the brands they need'#but it also owns and opperates vpnmentor and surprise surprise expressvpn#is the editors choice vpn and you get a special discount if you subscribe to it through them#kape also merged with private internet access so there's another vpn teddy effectively owns#i'm sure there's more if one were to dig into it given the guy's a billionaire and has been systematically buying up vpns#and internet advertising companies#oh and there it is#got a huge time-limited offer to get expressvpn on this supposedly independent review site#and i assume there's something fishy there 'cause i only whitelisted the site itself temporarily#ads are still blocked from everything else and javascript is also blocked#looks like i was right 'cause the tracking link on it helpfully says it's from the totally not biased site#but it looks like they're trying to hide they own vpnmentor#on the current site they just talk about their 'review sites' and how their 'review sites were featured on' various sites and fox news#but if you look at the site before they were bought out that section was about#how the company owns vpnmentor and that's their customer-facing side while webselenese is the business-focused side#plus it says in the advertising disclosure and about page that they're owned by kape technologies#also that kape owns expressvpn and cyberghost and zenmate and private internet access#but that totally doesn't make them biased about it /s#teddy also served time for insider trading#supposedly crossrider shut down and leadership was overhauled but teddy was still owner#and it was erlichman who said it was rebranding as he was ceo of the company that was rebranding from being infamous with malware#to the point security companies talked about it by name and warned about it#because they were now focused on privacy and security as a company and didn't want that to follow them#even though some of the top names and connections hadn't changed one bit#geez this went from a 'oh a tumblr post to look up'
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