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alele-opathic ago

It's also worth pointing out that the growth of both Proton/VPN and DDG can be attributed to very successful astroturfing campaigns. Very little conventional marketing was used - it was mainly shills sitting on imageboards/forums/social media that would respond to "are there any good VPNs/Emails/Search engines?" with "Idk, but my buddy has NordVPN/ProtonMail/DDG and he says its pretty good". After some time, an artificial reputation is built that is indistinguishable from companies actually having a good reputation.

In other words, don't ask questions like these - they are flawed in a way that makes it impossible for you to tell whether or not you are getting genuine information back, especially considering astroturfing shills specifically target questions like this. The only way is to do the research yourself (or at least parts of it).

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Empire_of_the_mind ago

this was the single biggest red flag - ALWAYS pay attention to this. if it's a household name, chances are it's crap.