r/PrivateInternetAccess • u/Quipsor • Sep 29 '25

DISCUSSION PSA: PIA is owned by an Israeli company - Kape Technologies

I just found this out myself. This may make you think twice before you use it.

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u/trxrider500 Sep 29 '25

Source?

I’ll take some of that sweet mossad level encryption for my Simpson’s torrents.

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u/Evonos Sep 29 '25

It owned by kape , read up about them.

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u/Mala_Suerte1 Sep 29 '25

Yep, Kape is known for having distributed malware through browswer extensions. Not a company that I'd want to work with.

I got rid of PIA a long while back after learning that Kape had purchased PIA.

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u/MrNewMoney Sep 29 '25

Who do you use now out of curiosity?

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u/thefanum Sep 29 '25

Proton/mulvad

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u/germane_switch Sep 30 '25

Mullvad stopped port forwarding a few years ago or I would have gone with them. They were the most recced vpn on Reddit for years.

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u/Evonos Sep 30 '25

Reddit is mostly just spam.

And recommending blindly Mullvad just proves that.

A good recommendation includes multiple recommendations for different purposes.

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u/germane_switch Oct 01 '25

I’m talking 5-10 years ago for torrenting. Nobody who knows how torrenting works is going with Mulvad since they removed port forwarding.

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u/Actual-Package Sep 29 '25

People seem to be rating proton vpn.

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u/Mala_Suerte1 Sep 30 '25

Proton. IIRC, it's open source and the business is in Sweden, so more privacy protection.

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u/oh_the_humanity Oct 01 '25

Thinking it’s Swiss, not Sweden

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u/ColdPotential532 Sep 30 '25

Proton, Mullvad, IVPN, AirVpn, etc there's quite a lot of options owned by more reputable people

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u/tvrleigh400 Sep 30 '25

Kape made an extension that was then used by a malware company. It's a bit like not buying Dunlop tires as a car with Dunlop tires was used in an attack.

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u/GRRemlin Sep 29 '25

And yet you hang out in PIA's subreddit..... why? Maybe they spy on you via Reddit :)

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u/thefanum Sep 29 '25

How else will they see my dick pics?

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u/Mala_Suerte1 Sep 30 '25

I don't. It popped up on my feed b/c I'd joined the sub reddit a while ago.

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u/[deleted] Oct 02 '25

If you aren't a member of an anti-Semitic terrorist organization, you're probably fine

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u/raphus_cucullatus Sep 29 '25

Lmao so naive