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by xerox13ster 337 days ago
Honey, Established Titles, BetterHelp, 7CupsofTea, RAID Shadow Legends, FTX, OperaGX, AG1, Factor, HelloFresh, AirUp. How many am I missing? How much more do we need to see to be convinced?

I won’t use Ground News or Brilliant (I tried it in 2019 and was unimpressed) because they market so aggressively, something doesn’t smell right!

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Don't forget Incogni, I was tempted to subscribe but as you point out, when you see the other kind of services/products youtubers tend to peddle, it gives me pause.
Look at its owners. You have good reason to be skeptical about incogni.
All data broker "removal services" are scams.
They’re never services that the YouTuber vets.
NordVPN, they're the most aggressive.
Is it a good product? Genuine question
Works ok. Friend shared their account. Proven useful few times.

Their app wants persistence and they had sister who sells residential proxies, if you catch my drift.

I'd sooner setup an AWS micro instance with wireguard than use some VPN that might well be logging everything and selling it to data brokers and/or sharing with domestic/foreign intelligence services.
TBH good luck doing anything with it, you'll be blocked everywhere.

But yeah I agree. You have to trust someone, somewhere. Adding layers helps tho.

Are you suggesting IP/BGP discrimination against AWS subnets? So what's the alternative, a random, cheap VPS in (country of choice)?
There's also ExpressVPN