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Map Legend Red - Corporate Relationship & Ownership Orange - Paid Relationship or Paid Affiliates (Dashes) Blue - Cooperation or Partnership (These companies may share staff, resources, networks, or facilities with one another). Purple - Corporate Media Relationship & Ownership Brown - Legal Dispute Hover over nodes to highlight relationships Use right-click to focus on select areas
This is an awesome visualisation, but the subtitle is the best part
aka “THE WHO’S FUCKING WHO”
This cracked me up also aha
Why do you keep linking to ycombinator and not the actual article?
Primary sauce and discussion too for context. I added the link in comment to the direct map
hackernews has some good discussions and the source is right there. I see it as a bonus, if it was reddit I would feel differently.
A lot of the top VPNs on here as well as less known VPNs seem to have much less connections.
(protonVPN, Mullvad, and PrivateVPN for example).
Cool site! Though it isn’t too good on mobile because it forces the map into a window 1/4 od the screen size 😅
So what’s a good VPN these days? Torrent support not needed, just want a little privacy.
Mullvad is looking pretty good. You can even sign up for them through FirefoxVPN and then you’re also supporting Mozilla.
I personally use Mullvad and love it but it is not conducive to helping seed due to port forwarding being blocked.
I use Mullvad. The map says its only relationship is a sisterhood with Firefox VPN (they use the same servers, but different software).
Surfshark worked well for me for a long time. Lots of servers, works well for unlocking region blocked content and it’s pretty cheap. If you’re into full privacy, I recently moved to AirVPN who accept payment through crypto, so you don’t have to hand over user data except for an email (which doesn’t have to be a real one, you can delete it later).
Torrenting is one thing but I wouldn’t be trusting a VPN to protect from anything to attract the heat of the law or government.
I assume the more money they spend on advertising the more dubious and low quality they are, this seems to be the case most of the time I see ads for almost any product. Might as well be a red flag at this point.
