Lifehacker’s traffic stats and the poll’s traffic stats should prove everything. They will investigate.
/u/blechniven seems to be a shill for IPVanish and other services that the IPVanish company offers like multiple usenet providers. I have saved his posts for reference incase he denies it.
I can’t say whether or not IPVanish is worth my business. But I know that you are making a damning, sensationalist butt-hurt sounding claim without posting a shred of evidence as to whether or not their service favorably (or otherwise) compares to the competition.
I’ve been thinking about switching from VyperVPN to PIA for the last few months, mostly due to getting something a little cheaper. Does anyone here have concerns about VyperVPN and privacy? Should I just stick with them? I picked them up b/c they had servers in New Zealand primarily -does PIA have them there?
This sounds like a case of just overreaching policy on their part.
Fraud is rampant among VPN providers. Easily 30% of our signups are suspect. We have taken a lot of proprietary measures to limit that, but when we get transactions that look like they could be fraud, we ask users to verify their payment information.
Our usual procedure is a lot less intrusive however. We ask the person to take a picture of the card used to sign up, and cover all information except for the name on the card and the last 4 digits.
This allows us to verify that they actually possess the card, as most cards are stolen through phishing schemes online (most fraudsters are not photoshop experts).
well I got a coupon from my usenet provider (Newshosting) some time ago and it was quite a bit cheaper than the home page price. So after asking around about VPNs I just bought it. And I’ll be honest, it works great for me and what I use it for. I did come here at one point to be part of the conversation and explain my experience because that’s what I thought this was for, but now it’s just all drown out and downvoted if you say anything other than the party line in this subreddit.
Unless you are swinging from the trees yelling “buy PIA! it blends, it cooks, it cleans your car!” welcome to downvotes.
We did not pay Torrentfreak for their review of us.
Nor did we pay Freedomhacker.
Torrentfreak put their sponsors on the first page of the review at the top of the list so they were the most likely to be read, and at least disclosed the sponsorships. They quoted our responses verbatim and seemed impartial with anything they added about various sites.
But yeah, i don’t know of any completely impartial site doing reviews.
And this “getting the most retweets means you’re the best!” shit does not tell anyone anything.
