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http://vpnspeedtest.org/ tests over 20 VPN services to find the maximum speed of each VPN from 8 locations around the world.

ThatOnePrivacyGuy should use their open source speed test tool instead as the tests are verifiable (unlike his tests from a single location which nobody can reproduce).

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I don't see a "disclaimer/disclosure" (kinda standard practice around here) so I assume your username is entirely coincidental?

His post history points to the contrary eh

The 'name and the link are less than a centimeter apart on one's screen. That seems enough to clue in most readers?

It was mere chance that I noticed it at all. I normally don't (consciously) pay much attention to usernames. "GOOGLE CEO" could reply to me and I probably wouldn't notice it so the disclaimers are a nice addition, IMO.

plus, the OP talks in the third person "should use their serivce", so it is a little misleading.

Yeah, it's not so subtle. But then again:

> ThatOnePrivacyGuy should use their open source speed test tool instead

Using their instead of our makes it sound like there is no affiliation.

vpnspeedtest.org probably only tests download speed but doesn't state it clearly. I use one of the listed vpn-providers and the upload speed of it is heavily throttled in a saw-tooth manner from 0,2 Mbit to 1.2Mbit, nowhere near the 50Mbit that vpnspeedtest.org lists for my hometown & PureVPN. After my ISP worked on their network, I got a new ip-address and PureVPN initially limited upload to 2Mbit, but the next day it was back to the saw-tooth behavior.

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