The company is owned by Kape Technologies, formerly Crossrider. Crossrider was big in the “ad injector” business, basically loading adware into browsers as a business model, which was then exploited with ads containing spyware, viruses, etc. The founders are also linked to an Israeli intelligence operation and state surveillance operations, which developed technology that was sold to UAE to spy on local dissidents and human rights’ activists. Crossrider rebranded to Kape Technologies to distance themselves from previous activities and began acquiring numerous VPN services and VPN review sites (ZenMate, ExpressVPN, Private Internet Access, Wizcase, VPNMentor), subsequently changing the “top reviewed VPNs” to the VPN services they acquired.
No one should be using VPNs that advertise across social media/podcast platforms. You are essentially paying money to hand your data to ad agencies, intelligence firms, etc. I have seen it marketed across the entire podcast industry within the last year and it’s incredible that none of the creators advertising it did a single bit of due diligence in what they were being paid to endorse.
Tbf, ExpressVPNs whole thing is supposed to be speed, not security. If you want proper privacy, you probably want something like proton, idk. But if all you care about is downloading and streaming movies, express is probably ideal
I need a VPN for work purposes where I need to trick the software into thinking that I am in fact not using a VPN. In my experience ExpressVPN has been the best in that regard because it has soooo many server options that eventually one of them works on a given day.
