by taddeimania on 3/9/18, 3:14 PM
by rasengan on 3/9/18, 2:10 PM
This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.
by lathiat on 3/9/18, 1:54 PM
RIP marketing department budget at Linus Tech Tips
by tptacek on 3/9/18, 6:27 PM
I don'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.
Stop using commercial VPN providers.
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 "independently audited" on your front page.
by nugi on 3/9/18, 2:29 PM
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.
by badprose on 3/9/18, 2:40 PM
I don't see how this purchase changes anything. How was "TunnelBear: an independent VPN provider" ever any more trustworthy than "TunnelBear: A service from McAffee"?
In both cases, I have no idea what they're actually doing with my info.
by Arubis on 3/9/18, 2:30 PM
Nice while it lasted.
Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.
by 11eleven on 3/9/18, 4:16 PM
Also important: "TunnelBear is now part of McAfee, a US based company" =
customer information can be subject to US court orders.
by kylehotchkiss on 3/9/18, 5:26 PM
I can'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.
by ohf on 3/9/18, 3:10 PM
FWIW, I'm pretty sure the market segment of tunnelbear users were people dodging network restrictions, not people who valued privacy much.
That aside, there are exceptions and someone is getting fucked over.
by moistoreos on 3/9/18, 3:52 PM
Tried them until they implemented the policy to block the torrent protocol. WHY. WOULD. YOU. DO. THAT. TUNNELBEAR. That's a legit protocol where legit downloads happen barring the overwhelming illegal activity that happens there.
by sleepychu on 3/9/18, 4:23 PM
F
*, just renewed at $49.99 for a year.
Cancelling automatically downgrades, how unreasonable.
by crysin on 3/9/18, 3:46 PM
Someone should let Linus (the Tech Tips one) know. Not sure if he'd want to be endorsing tunnel bear now that its owned by McAfee.
by kennydude on 3/9/18, 2:20 PM
Well, goodbye nice looking VPN.
by mrweasel on 3/9/18, 2:03 PM
I don't get this kind of purchases. If McAfee intends to just let TunnelBear be TunnelBear, then what they'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?
Edit: Also TunnelBear isn'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.
by BlackPlot on 3/12/18, 3:00 PM
by ksec on 3/9/18, 3:10 PM
Why does Intel wants TunnelBear?
I dont see the logic behind this, any one could explain?
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.
by dogma1138 on 3/9/18, 4:05 PM
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.
by aarpmcgee on 3/9/18, 7:13 PM
Canceled my subscription.
by sireat on 3/10/18, 7:07 AM
If you can't trust a goofy bear who can you really trust then?
If you think about it all the goodwill Tunnelbear had was built on quirky/irreverent front end client.
by wemdyjreichert on 3/10/18, 2:28 AM
Someone tell Linus Tech Tips
by PuffinBlue on 3/9/18, 1:52 PM
I'll save you the trouble of ctrl+f'ing:
"We’d like to thank you for being part of the journey so far, and we look forward to sharing more about our plans in the coming weeks."
https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
by burner5692 on 3/9/18, 3:50 PM
TunnelBear never had good security. It's Canadian HideMyAss. Well, it was.