Yeah Linus also advertises a couple of VPNs, and almost all of them are at best snake oil (privacy is a real issue, but spying from ISPs is not the biggest concern that 99% of people should be worried about and VPNs are just rent-seeking middlemen that want a recurring revenue stream) or at worst actively stealing and selling data themselves.
LTT makes a lot of noise about editorial ethics but also have mountains of sponsored spots where they repeat manufacturer talking points with a couple of “now I have to say this part isn’t the most amazing in the world” thrown in
I might be wrong, but seems like the addon has permission to do anything.
Honey claims they get their revenue from the sites sharing a profit from the purchase. Why would a site voluntarily share their money with a 3rd party? Well, ideally just because it would increase sales by convincing more people to checkout, if they have a discount code. However, I suspect that the real reason is because Honey might purposefully not apply an even better coupon code it managed to find. Which would put store owners between a rock and a hard place – either share part of the revenue, or don’t share, but let Honey save users even more money. Just a conspiracy theory I came up with, no idea if it’s true
After McAffee bought Tunnelbear they weren’t comfortable continuing their relationship with them, since McAffee is a US company. (The government could secretly demand data logs, see Warrant canary - Wikipedia if you’ve never heard about such things).
The VPN service they promote/advertise currently is Private Internet Access (PIA), which has been proven in court of law to not hold any logs. Many privacy advocates consider them the trustworthy VPN service people should use.
Just wanted to defend LTT, since they definitely do end sponsorhips when users complain / have a bad experience / sponsor cannot be trusted.
Btw this needs to be moved to derail jail, sorry everyone
Hi
The V2 are no longer for sale
The V1 i still have a little of XL
and after I have some M and L brand new but the rubber on the top hand start to peel off see pictures
If this is ok for you 15$
@XBoard – I’ll be looking out for the garage sale deal on the website cuz just like @hoytkid I’d like to snag a set of these “b stock” v1s in medium if possible
