Disclaimer: I know TurboVPN and the others mentioned are not good services to use, I’m strictly doing research. I’m not looking for VPN recommendations.

Genuinely wondering how these numbers are possible? 300M downloads and 8.35M reviews…? How?! Not even Amazon Shopping app or Disney+ have this many reviews. And surely NordVPN and Express VPN are considerable larger in both users and resources? I’ve never seen a sponsorship, not even once, from Turbo VPN. Are these numbers regional based? Is Turbo VPN more known in other regions? Is it easy to spoof these numbers?

Appreciate any comments on the matter, and have a nice day 🌻

    • Ziglin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      7 months ago

      If you care about privacy you should use tor/the tor network:

      • It’s free
      • It can’t track you unless someone happens to own your entire route the network, which hopefully isn’t happening and would have to a very big actor and would only be a low chance
      • You can use tor bridges to bypass censorship and detection
      • You can visit hidden services if you find out their .onion address
      • You can host hidden services if you find out how to configure tor
      • You can switch to a VPN if you really want
      • Has integration into an existing privacy centred browser but can be used with anything that supports sock5 proxies
    • thirteene@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      7 months ago

      Leak your identity twice in 20 days and get denied a refund and get stuck in a multi-year plan. Yup they are great