You’d be surprised how many VPNs are owned by the same company

guest · Jan 22, 2019

You’d be surprised how many VPNs are owned by the same company
January 23, 2019
https://thenextweb.com/tech/2019/01...-how-many-vpns-are-owned-by-the-same-company/

A report from The Best VPN, shared exclusively with TNW, looks at five companies in particular — Avast, AnchorFree, StackPath, Gaditek and Kape Technologies. It found that over the past few years, these companies have acquired a total of 19 smaller players in the VPN space, including HideMyAss and CyberGhost VPN
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Does this matter?
There’s nothing wrong, or even especially inappropriate, about a larger player acquiring smaller rivals.
Liviu Arsene, Senior E-threat analyst at Bitdefender, suggests that this merely reinforces the sense of privacy that’s vital for the success of a VPN product.

The more VPN providers there are, each with their own anonymization and security technologies, the less chances for an authority to tamper with that privacy by going after a single and large VPN provider [...]
Arsene also argued that allowing VPN providers to retain their independence after an acquisition could allow them to remain agile and innovative.
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mirimir · Jan 22, 2019

No, I wouldn't "be surprised". Not at all.

Palancar · Jan 31, 2019

Ditto!!

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