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VPN ownership article for blog #2118

Open dngray opened 1 year ago

dngray commented 1 year ago

Affected page

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/basics/vpn-overview/#sources-and-further-reading

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Looking at the VPN page we could clean up the "Sources and Further Reading" and "Related VPN Information" sections by writing our own article on VPN ownership.

I'm not a fan of cross linking to those sites mentioned in https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2117 and https://github.com/privacyguides/privacyguides.org/pull/2112/files#diff-6ff877175c1e0d1e526cece2a0fb849033a13b945a45da94f309780edb4d0f6f (to a lesser degree) due to the fact they're owned by astro-turfing companies, or VPN companies themselves.

The data is public information, so there's no issues of plagiarism there.

The map on Windscribe's article is a nice touch though https://embed.kumu.io/9ced55e897e74fd807be51990b26b415#vpn-company-relationships and we might be able to do something with that.

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ghost commented 1 year ago

I think maybe this should just be part of the VPN overview page and not its own blog article.

freddy-m commented 1 year ago

It honestly could be either... I feel as though @jonaharagon would be the best to write the article, but I could do it if people want? cc @privacyguides/team

Dyrimon commented 1 year ago

I found anther project and it seems like good source: https://whoisyourvpn.com/about-this-project/ (uses cloudflare and google analytics)

There's also the ivpn tips: https://www.ivpn.net/blog/who-owns-your-vpn-you-should-find-out/

I-I-IT commented 5 months ago

whoisyourvpn.com has AI-generated articles in the countries section. No about info. Otherwise good website.