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by askura 1155 days ago
I don't personally see it so cynically but I get what you're trying to say.

However it's being handled though I think the gesture is pretty nice in general. A ton of WeVPN customers were about to lose their money and for some people in restricted countries losing VPN access can be a hell of a blow.

When in Shanghai for example being able to jump across like this would have been pretty handy. As opposed when one that I used went down I had massive issues trying to get back online as other VPNs were being super restricted.

Each to their own.

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I think nobody complained about the gesture to provide customers with at least access to a reliable VPN. WindScribe is a pretty good product, but they can't just break their own privacy policy with the excuse that someone could lose their money or no access due to the restrictions in their country. They have the whole customer email list if they have the hashes and nobody neither Wevpn or Windscribe asked the customer if they wanted to be migrated and grant the data access. Someone who purchase a VPN service is looking for data privacy, not only to bypass region restrictions.