Restore Privacy uses affiliate links. This article criticized recommendations from sites like Restore Privacy, because the financial compensation creates a conflict of interest.
Their "Best VPN List" doesn't mention it, either. That's extremely damning to Restore Privacy's credibility as a review site, and highlights how financial conflicts of interest can degrade the quality of a site's content.
The most recent Wayback Machine archive (November 18) shows that the "Trust issues?" paragraph wasn't in the NordVPN review until very recently. Thanks for getting the paragraph added in, because transparency is important.
However, you might want to consider using the pronoun "I" or "we" instead of "he", because astroturfing is not a transparent thing to do. It doesn't take a genius to see that you're affiliated with Restore Privacy just as Restore Privacy is affiliated with NordVPN.
Thank you for pointing that out. My mistake, sorry about that - I should have checked there before replying to your original comment.
Interestingly, it looks like he doesn't censor/hadn't censored the couple of comments mentioning the breach on that page.
His article on the breach/hack was published in Oct. But his Nord VPN review was published/updated the month prior (from your waybackmachine link). So a month later.
It's plausible to me that he just never got around to updating the original post/review. But apparently your comment prompted him to do so.
However, he hasn't bothered to jump in this thread and comment that was the case. So although I think RestorePrivacy is still a useful site, perhaps a larger grain of salt is needed.
> However, you might want to consider using the pronoun "I" or "we" instead of "he", because astroturfing is not a transparent thing to do
Not Sven and not astroturfing. Merely suggesting what I thought was a decent privacy resource - in a related topic's thread.
I don't understand why you were downvoted. If someone has concerns over RestorePrivacy.com which is a site I used as well, could they explain what seems to be wrong with their recommendations as they seemed quite professional to me?
