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The rising popularity of VPNs allowed not only quality services to reign free, but also the worst VPN scams I’ve ever seen. In this video I’ll show you a couple of VPN providers you should definitely avoid and explain to you how to avoid them.
00:00 Intro
0:20 Signs of a VPN scam
2:36 Hola VPN scam
3:10 Opera VPN lies
3:55 Earth VPN
4:27 Yoga VPN secrets
5:19 Choosing a good VPN
6:26 Our recommendations
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😱 Signs of a bad VPN:
The clearest sign of a bad VPN - is its privacy policy. You won’t believe how many VPNs straight up state that they are collecting your data and selling it to third party advertisers. Not just your IP, but your whole browsing information will be used to throw target advertisements at you. And it’s all reflected in the privacy policy.
However, it’s kinda fine if you can stop using VPN in question, before any major damage is done, right? Unless you might not be able to. While most VPNs have money back guarantees or refund policies, they always apply only if you haven’t violated their Terms of Service. And if the ToS are very obscure, well, you might get denied a refund over nothing, just so the service could keep your money.
Even if you trust a popular Virtual Private Network, there could be a scam hiding in plain sight: just take the situation with NordVPN impersonators as an example. Scammers didn’t just pretend to be NordVPN employees, but even created a phishing website, almost indistinguishable from the original. They would offer discounts, collaborations and such. Their victims won’t just lose money, but would be tricked into downloading malware as well.
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🔥 HolaVPN - the worst VPN ever:
With all these scams in mind, what are the worst VPN providers you should totally avoid? Well, HolaVPN would be the first in this list. It’s a special case, really. A first P2P VPN, it uses every free user as a node in their system, meaning anyone could use another user’s location as an exit node… And HolaVPN has been offering an opportunity to do so for anyone willing to pay. Someone even used their user base as a huge botnet. This botnet ended up being involved in the hacking attack because of Hola’s low standards of security. That’s just a textbook example of an unsafe VPN.
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🎭 OperaVPN - proxy pretending to be a VPN:
OperaVPN is a bit similar in a sense that it records, and I quote: “the product features you use, how often you use the app, runtime environment and UI session activity”. This is less than Betternet, but the fun doesn’t stop here. In all honesty, OperaVPN is not a VPN, it’s a proxy. The difference lies within encryption, or rather lack thereof. Opera “VPN” doesn’t have any additional protection VPNs add, and your data is not even a little bit safer when using it, and at this point you should be less worried about OperaVPN logging it and more worried about it leaking it elsewhere.
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🌍 EarthVPN - gone, but not really:
But it’s about to get worse. There’s that service - EarthVPN. With a proper website, customer reviews, it looks like you can go on and make a purchase. Too bad that it’s no longer operational, they just forgot to announce that. How long has it been? Three years? Yup, you can buy it, but it’s just not working, the servers are down, and the customer support will not refund you anything or even reply at all. As simple as that, the easiest scam in the book, enjoy your overpriced bunch of nothing.
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🧘 YogaVPN - secretive and elusive:
It’s nice to have information allowing us to identify the scam. Too bad that some VPNs release almost no information about themselves. YogaVPN is as secretive as the officials of Hong Kong. A suitable comparison seeing how it originates from there. There’s no information on the security practices it uses and even the privacy information is scarce - the lonely privacy policy on their website tells barely anything about the service. At least Android permissions shine some light, apparently YogaVPN wants your phone number, data about the cell network you're on, and whether you're on a call. Yeah, don’t use VPN services like this one.
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