Ancestors

Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 10:15

Gotta love it when Vpn "review" site are such obvious affiliate farms.

Just stumbled upon a new one "vpnsociety.com"

The about us page claims that they have existed since 2020, but the domain was registered about three weeks ago, and their socials have basically zero followers.

They seem to have a link with security.org, another affiliate link farm. They seem to just use a template of buzzwords to create new sites on the fly, posing as a "leader in the field".

Quite scummy if you ask me.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 10:33

The fun part: it does not seem to be completely launched yet, they have links with top 10 vpns and top 10 antivirus and a latest news section, but it is all empty.

Its quite obvious they keep building more sites and brands with copy pasted content filled with affiliate links, while posing like they have been a long established organisation thats respected by the industry.

In my opinion, it just breaks trust of the consumer it borderlines on a scam.

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Toot

Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 10:43

Bonus: we know its reliable: it was founded by the famous security expert "Mr. X". 😭 you can't make this stuff up.

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Descendants

Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 11:10

They seem to be all owned by Centerfield.com

Security.org is listed there, but vpnsociety.com is not.

But check this out:

Compare the text on both https://vpnsociety.com/ethics-statement-editorial-policy/

And https://www.security.org/editorial-guidelines/

Under the AI section, its basically the same, only some words have been shuffled around.

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Written by Blacklight447 on 2024-12-05 at 12:45

Okay last one I promise:

Security.org, their big affiliate farm, claims to exist since 1995. If you look at archive.org, you can see that while that domain has existed since atleast 1996, it has only been under their control since end 2018.

Edit: it goes a bit deeper, security.org seems to have partially began as securitybarron.com, of which the earliest mention I can find is 2016.

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Written by Chris 🦑 on 2024-12-05 at 12:37

@blacklight447 😂 😂

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