So a bit of background, I’m a few months away from the decision to renew my Expressvpn subscription. It’s been a pretty good 1 year so far, customer support has been prompt, their removal of India servers didn’t affect me even though I connect to an Indian location sometimes, but the news about their Kape acquisition has always been a lingering afterthought, especially since I signed up just before the news broke. After reading this article on CNET, I feel a little bit better for sticking around, and it might make my renewal decision a little easier.
Tl;dr about the article: Kape has a big incentive to preserve the integrity of Expressvpn. Selling customer data would put Expressvpn in a dangerous position, destabilizing Kape’s overall subscriber retention rate.
Those of you are using or have used Expressvpn, does this change your opinion about ExpressVPN? Would you still stick around?
i just renewed and feeling bit of buyers remorse, it feels active development has stopped, once a feature breaks it wont get fixed , right now i haven’t found a vpn that supports per IP OVPN setup on my router and also dyndns for the streamer , which btw doesnt work anymore, so if you dont use the more complex features you may decide on some else
I 100% regret signing up for a 2 year subscription. I’m taking it as a write off and a lesson learned and going elsewhere
The internet is a corporate landscape. It is not a safe place and business takes precedence over safety and security.
Name one VPN that you can guarantee will never sell your data or give you up to the authorities. We all have to make our own threat assessment and use the tools that best meet our needs. There are no guarantees of privacy on the Net.
I’m sticking around been with them 6 years and will continue to pay annually ! It just works ! And there is no other vpn I could trust
I switched to Windscribe. My primary use case is watching British TV shows and that works great for those. The expressVPN daemon running on my Mac even when I wasn’t running their software and uploading gbs of data added to their acquisition by kape with its connections to israeli intelligence freaked me out.
We should all be skeptical, I guess that’s what the article is trying to say at the end of the day.