But, it does have an extensive knowledge base of online tutorials and a ticket system with prompt responses from customer agents. The VPN service does not offer 24/7 live chat support. In 2022, Cure53 only found one high risk vulnerability, which has been resolved. IVPN has regular annual audits with Cure53, a well-trusted and respected cybersecurity testing firm. It has a kill switch on Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Not only does IVPN offer private DNS servers, it also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. You can register anonymously - no email required - and you can pay using Cash, Monero, or Bitcoin for better anonymity. It’s a great choice if you want to stay anonymous online and it works well with US Netflix. Still, I thought this was still newsworthy to the community as it was quite a long-time major resource (and one that I personally made good use of!) that seems to have sunken beneath the waves depressingly quickly after "partnering" with a commercial outlet.IVPN is a premium, no-logs VPN service that puts privacy and security first. I understand that TOPG's guides weren't actually awfully helpful or relevant in 2021, since r/VPN maintains its own modernised version of the table, while privacytools.io (and probably others) have more solid coverage of e-mail providers than his old comparison.
It doesn't seem like TOPG's Reddit has been active since announcing the merge, either, which is a shame. There's no longer any mention of the difference between physical and virtual server locations, or PGP, or the "Enemy of the Internet" jurisdictions - and the points-based breakdown of each provider's colour rating has been turned into very cheap-looking infographics and meaningless filler like "mediocre security" or "some ethics concerns" that's never elaborated on.Īfter a bit of digging, Waybackmachine says that this change happened over the night of the 13th, replacing the original article with the new one by a new author, who seems to be one of SD's senior editors. It's chock-full of extremely vague qualitative descriptions (" Torrenting: Strong"!), references to using VPNs for streaming services, and extremely basic coverage of speeds and distance of all things (as opposed to even the relatively-untrusted doing leak testing).Ī quick scroll down reveals that the tables have been kept in some form I haven't yet properly dug into them to see if they've been updated (or changed to favour the affiliate-linked ones!), but it's very noticeable that the deeper and enthusiast-friendly aspects have been removed or dumbed down. You can see for yourself here, but at present the site has been turned into a generic "TOP 10 VPNs" list and worse than most, since it seems to be unable to go more than two sentences without outlinking to an affiliate. About half a year ago he had his content moved/merged/bought by SafetyDetectives (owned by the same people as CyberGhost, Zenmate, PIA and Intego), and TOPS's domain would redirect straight to his VPN comparison list on SD and while there was a lot of noise about still maintaining editorial independence, when I recently decided to check on it on impulse the page was completely different. From what I can tell, ThatOnePrivacyGuy's VPN comparison - the last real vestiges of ThatOnePrivacySite - is no more.įor those who might not know, TOPG's tables for methodical and detailed VPN comparisons VPNs were a (occasionally controversial) staple of r/VPN, r/privacy, r/privacytoolsIO, and possibly more.
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