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Tunnelbear Acquired by McAfee

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Hey!

 

I'm sure some of you have heard about Tunnelbear being acquired by McAfee, and if you haven't, see below:

 

https://beta.techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/mcafee-acquires-vpn-company-tunnelbear/

 

We have an existing contract in place with them for sponsorships that runs until the end of March. In the meantime, we'll be talking with the folks over there and looking into the situation further.

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Rest in pieces TunnelBear. May your guilt-tripping uninstaller be forever missed.

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IMO TunnelBear always seemed like one of those "average dummy" VPNs like Cyberghost and Hotspot Shield. Never even thought for a second about using it. 

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Hopefully McAfee doesn't touch Tunnelbear. 

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6 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Hopefully McAfee doesn't touch Tunnelbear. 

Besides monitoring and logging.. I'd bet they'll leave it running 

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Fine with me. I never liked Tunnelbear. The one time I tried it, it left my computer with no functioning network devices. Ended up having to reinstall Windows. 

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2 minutes ago, unijab said:

Besides monitoring and logging.. I'd bet they'll leave it running

Never use a VPN that logs. period. if there's logs, the government (might as well) have it. Additionally, don't use any company that is based in the 5 eyes countries. And accepts bitcoin (though monero is preferable) or gift cards.

 

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If LMG can get ExpressVPN to sponsor them why not? I might need that special LMG discount considering that ExpressVPN is $100 a year, it's more expensive than my anti-virus subscription. If not, then there are other very good VPN options such as NordVPN and PrivateVPN which is the one I'm using at the moment. https://www.bestvpn.com/best-vpn-services/

 

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I recommend Mullvad, zero logging, zero knowledge,  maintain around 90% of throughout, and have a warrant canary

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I use PIA and never had an issue, don't have to download anything to use if I don't want to and it doesn't log.... not expense to have, I pay $39.95 USD yearly, less if I pay bi-annual.

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20 hours ago, CPotter said:

Hey!

 

I'm sure some of you have heard about Tunnelbear being acquired by McAfee, and if you haven't, see below:

 

https://beta.techcrunch.com/2018/03/08/mcafee-acquires-vpn-company-tunnelbear/

 

We have an existing contract in place with them for sponsorships that runs until the end of March. In the meantime, we'll be talking with the folks over there and looking into the situation further.

I'm immensely concerned over this contract with Tunnelbear since they were purchased by McAfee so considering they need to oblige by US laws, you know their privacy policy and their "security" will be dragged through the thickest mud possible? 

 

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Will TunnelBear stay TunnelBear?

A big part of why McAfee is excited about TunnelBear is our people and the privacy culture we’ve created. So by design, 100% of the TunnelBear team is staying together, and will continue to work on TunnelBear products. Our entire team will continue to be based in Toronto. McAfee is excited for us to continue to grow TunnelBear and we’re excited about their support.

 

Privacy and McAfee don't really work out in a single sentence, nor should they ever be in one. I'm not a fan of this at all and I hope you reconsider. 

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20 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Hopefully McAfee doesn't touch Tunnelbear. 

Which they won't... except for integrating anti-virus, malware and firewall while storing your activities with daily drops to gubbamint "security" alphabet soup agencies.

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5 hours ago, SansVarnic said:

I use PIA and never had an issue, don't have to download anything to use if I don't want to and it doesn't log.... not expense to have, I pay $39.95 USD yearly, less if I pay bi-annual.

Same here.

 

I did have significant issues with the windows software for PIA being very slow/unresponsive, though the most recent version seems to have fixed that.

 

As for tunnelbear, now I for sure won't be trying it.

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