TunnelBear Joins McAfee

I&#x27;ll save some of you the task of searching through their FAQ if you want to cancel your account.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tunnelbear.com&#x2F;account#&#x2F;remove" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tunnelbear.com&#x2F;account#&#x2F;remove</a>

This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel&#x2F;McAfee at a price.

RIP marketing department budget at Linus Tech Tips

I don&#x27;t know what all you Tunnelbear users were thinking. Do you believe other commercial VPN services are doing a better job of protecting your privacy? Spoiler: they are not. Commercial VPN services offer the safety of coffee shop open wi-fi, in The Cloud, from the convenience of your own couch.<p>Stop using commercial VPN providers.<p>Honestly, at least now they have the McAfee security team working for them. There are better teams, but anything is better than getting a single point-in-time audit and slapped &quot;independently audited&quot; on your front page.

Whelp, that singlehandedly kills any credibility tunnerlbear had in my mind. I hope the buyout was worth it guys. The exact market for services like tunnelbear are the same ones that avoid the likes of mcafee (the company) like the plauge. I can see them jumping like rats from a burning ship. They should just find a new name at this point, ala comcast, blackwater, etc. Even their literal namesake disses them publicly.

I don&#x27;t see how this purchase changes anything. How was &quot;TunnelBear: an independent VPN provider&quot; ever any more trustworthy than &quot;TunnelBear: A service from McAffee&quot;?<p>In both cases, I have no idea what they&#x27;re <i>actually</i> doing with my info.

Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.

Also important: &quot;TunnelBear is now part of McAfee, a US based company&quot; =<p>customer information can be subject to US court orders.

I can&#x27;t wait for the mcafee themed bear photos! Bears on drugs , bears hiding in Mexico, and bears trying to sell you cryptocurrencies in back alleys.

FWIW, I&#x27;m pretty sure the market segment of tunnelbear users were people dodging network restrictions, not people who valued privacy much.<p>That aside, there are exceptions and someone is getting fucked over.

Tried them until they implemented the policy to block the torrent protocol. WHY. WOULD. YOU. DO. THAT. TUNNELBEAR. That&#x27;s a legit protocol where legit downloads happen barring the overwhelming illegal activity that happens there.

F<i></i>*, just renewed at $49.99 for a year.<p>Cancelling automatically downgrades, how unreasonable.

Someone should let Linus (the Tech Tips one) know. Not sure if he&#x27;d want to be endorsing tunnel bear now that its owned by McAfee.

Well, goodbye nice looking VPN.

I don&#x27;t get this kind of purchases. If McAfee intends to just let TunnelBear be TunnelBear, then what they&#x27;re after must the business (as in the profit). In that case would there be more business sense in not selling, from the TunnelBear perspective?<p>Edit: Also TunnelBear isn&#x27;t joining McAfee, or I doubt that they are. McAfee BOUGHT them. Joining implies that you merged the two businesses with no money changing hands.

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Why does Intel wants TunnelBear?<p>I dont see the logic behind this, any one could explain?<p>P.S Is anyone still using McAfee ? It seems Symantec has taken up most of the enterprise sales, while consumer are happy with Windows default protection.

I don’t understand why people used them they didn’t had an explicit no logging no retention policy and they are located well within the reach of the US legal system as they were a Canadian company.

Canceled my subscription.

If you can&#x27;t trust a goofy bear who can you really trust then?<p>If you think about it all the goodwill Tunnelbear had was built on quirky&#x2F;irreverent front end client.

Someone tell Linus Tech Tips

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TunnelBear never had good security. It&#x27;s Canadian HideMyAss. Well, it was.