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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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AzireVPN stopped accepting crypto as payment, avoid this service (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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There is zero privacy using a VPN when they have all your details on file from a credit card transaction. Cryptocurrency is the only private form of payment online period.

These guys are total hypocrites, they will likely be selling your online activity to anyone willing to pay so they stopped accepting crypto because if you pay with crypto they cannot profit from your data easily.

Here is their chatroom if you want to stop by and let them know what you think about this

https://matrix.to/#/#azirevpn:xmr.se

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was a user for a while. Never did figure out if they were just a small team of well-meaning people who didn't know how to run a business properly, or a front for something. Good prices though, and reliable service for the time I was there. Their web page seems to indicate they got acquired by Malwarebytes, I'm not sure if that makes them less trustworthy, or more.

[–] CashDragon@realbitcoin.cash 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for the info, this likely explains why they dropped private payments. Large corporations hate privacy for their customers but love it for themselves.