Maybe it's just me, but it feels like this is trying to scare people into thinking that the VPNs mentioned are doing this tracking on the sites you visit while <i>using</i> their VPN, when it's really only about the VPN's own website (which people usually visit only when they sign up). It doesn't explicitly say the tracking is happening while using the VPNs in question, but I would bet a large portion of readers assume that's what they're saying.<p>It really doesn't bother me if a VPN company uses trackers and other tools to optimize their own website, other than the fact that some third parties may have good reason to believe that a visitor uses a VPN if the person visited the VPN's website. That says nothing (or very little) about how private you are when actually <i>using</i> the VPN.
With how much of the internet is over TLS, and the fact the you still have to trust <i>someone</i>, be they a VPN operator or ISP, aside from georestrictions and piracy, VPN services are mostly snake oil. It shouldn't be surprising that they're employing marketing tools to sell more of it.<p>As for them even selling privacy, while I don't trust major ISPs, at least there are more eyes on them. You generally have no idea who's operating a VPN, so even that's dubious.
Why the outrage? It's sometimes worth replaying a session to gauge your prospect's behavior and figuring out how to convert them. Also, for people who use a VPN, I would imagine the majority of them would be using an AD-Blocker / Tracking blocker in their browser to stop any attempt by the VPN company to spy on them.
> <i>"2. AirVPN – 0"</i><p>Shoutout to AirVPN, run by actual hacktivists: <a href="https://airvpn.org/mission/" rel="nofollow">https://airvpn.org/mission/</a>
On second thought: I understand that VPNs are jsut companies and they need to do proper marketing, testing, UX/UI improvements, etc.<p>but there's always such in-house/first party trackers like Piwik that i'm pretty sure these "good" VPNs in the list at the bottom with only 0/1 trackers are using