RestorePrivacy.com Owner Sven Taylor Works for NordVPN?

[Myna]

A lot of vpn reviewers and vpn websites are now owned by VPN companies or have bought own VPN companies. One such site, RestorePrivacy.com, has been around for awhile and is owned by Editor “Sven Taylor.”

Doing a little research on this guy came up with some interesting findings. I looked up several NordVPN employees and found a few of their guys had public images. Here is Iggy Holzman, a marketing director at NordVPN. Strangely enough, I can’t find much information about Iggy Holzman, perhaps Iggy Holzman isn’t his real name? He hasn’t even had other jobs besides NordVPN?

Curiously, I looked up “Sven Taylor,” and it didn’t take long to find some shocking results.

Sven Taylor on Facebook, matches with Iggy Holzman’s pictured on NordVPN’s linkedin, a marketing executive at NordVPN in charge of affiliations.

Since Sven Taylor has been actively promoting NordVPN for years, it now makes sense why. Sven Taylor sends users directly to NordVPN since he is marketing for their company!

What’s more, is that Sven Taylor has always had a “nautical themed” icon on his website to portray himself.

So as you can see, it all lines up. Sven Taylor clearly owns that Sven Taylor facebook page, which has a nautical theme, and the image matches that of Iggy Holzman, a NordVPN marketing executive.

What more proof could you need that one of the biggest VPN review sites is simply NordVPN’s way of attaining customers?

 

EDIT: It looks like Sven Taylor has now changed his Facebook page to a “sailing ship”, giving evidence to that the fact that he does not want to be caught working for NordVPN.

 

Source: https://medium.com/@trevorvpnxx013/restoreprivacy-com-owner-sven-taylor-works-for-nordvpn-131b316857c5

[steven36]

8 hours ago, Myna said:

A lot of vpn reviewers and vpn websites are now owned by VPN companies or have bought own VPN companies.

That why you cant trust no   review sites  or people on reddit  and it not just vpns  it everything from paid  download services  to  IPTV  a lot of these people have 2 or more online names and will be downgrading there competition  i seen people get caught  more than once witch it  is not uncommon  i have more than one online username myself  but i only have one user name per site because most sites don't allow you to have but one name ,but on reddit they don't care how many names you have   but some people even on here  got in trouble for having  sock puppet accounts,    . Not that i have anything against Nord vpn i don't besides  the fact it's  over advertised many of the others are too but Nord  and IPVanish take it to extremes.

 

A lot of times you have shills and there jobs is to try to justify why you should buy a service that cost more money that there affiliated with  when you been using the cheaper one with no problem for years,

[steven36]

Response  from Sven

 

[–]RestorePrivacycom 6 points 3 hours ago 

Sven here from RestorePrivacy.com. This is a very poor attempt at a hit piece, with fictitious information and a made up Facebook page of “Sven Taylor” with a photo from someone who’s apparently at NordVPN, but I have no idea who “Iggy Holzman” is, so I can’t verify.

 

FACT: The person behind Restore Privacy has not had a Facebook page in over five years. There are no Facebook accounts for Restore Privacy, nor the Sven Taylor alias, nor the owner of the site.

 

Now looking at the screenshots in the Medium article, it looks like the alleged “Sven Taylor” does not have any Facebook friends. So this means that Sven is either a total loser, or this is a fake account with no real-world connections, and some “nautical” photos added for “proof” of a “nautical theme”. And why would a privacy enthusiast be using Facebook? Who knows. And why would someone create a Facebook page for an alias (Sven Taylor)? Who knows (unless it was to fabricate "proof" for a Medium article, of course).

 

FACT: In early 2017, I was the only VPN review site exposing active IPv6 leaks with NordVPN, and did not recommend their VPN service. In fact, in various articles around that time, I recommended that people NOT use their service due to the leaks.

 

You can see in May 2017, NordVPN was NOT recommended on my Best VPN page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170716182604/https://restoreprivacy.com/best-vpns/

 

It was only after NordVPN fixed their IPv6 leaks, improved their kill switch, and improved speeds, that it slowly moved up in the rankings.

 

FACT: This laughable attempt at a hit piece appeared immediately after I wrote about the TorGuard lawsuit, and various players involved, including “Tom Spark Reviews” and his alleged connections/employment with TorGuard. Links and sources are in the article: https://restoreprivacy.com/torguard-nordvpn-lawsuit-blackmail/

 

The Medium article author also must control the Facebook page, so he can change the image to a sailing ship as more “proof” for his claims, as you can see with his “EDIT” appearing at the bottom.

 

Pathetic.

 

Source

https://old.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/bvmdld/restoreprivacycom_owner_sven_taylor_works_for/

[steven36]

Maybe the op from Medium is just another smear campaign  fake news as it will ,  most likely someone that works for some other vpn  or vpn review site .  another thing strange about the medium article   is the person  that post it @Trevor VPN have no more articles  witch make it look even more fishy . Who the heck is Trevor VPN  its just a alias like @Sven Taylor is witch don't even have a Facebook so @Trevor VPN is  making   up.  

https://medium.com/@trevorvpnxx013

 

Edit : I  remember  this review and him saying not  to use NORD

 

3 hours ago, steven36 said:

FACT: In early 2017, I was the only VPN review site exposing active IPv6 leaks with NordVPN, and did not recommend their VPN service. In fact, in various articles around that time, I recommended that people NOT use their service due to the leaks.

 

You can see in May 2017, NordVPN was NOT recommended on my Best VPN page: https://web.archive.org/web/20170716182604/https://restoreprivacy.com/best-vpns/

 

Stuff like this is why  i quit reading vpn reviews  when i 1st started out using vpns  the vpn i used had no software but open vpn software that didnt come with it  and Nord  vpn is cheap  IPV6  leaks are easy to stop on Windows  and Linux  you just turn it off in your OS then it cant leak

https://www.ipburger.com/blog/disable-ipv6-for-better-vpn-protection/

 

Same as DNS leaks you just change your dns in your whole os then it cant leak . And you can download a free kill switch that is very good. I always check my system for leaks and fix it myself. Trust no one or nothing!

 

 On Windows this kind of stuff is very easy to do  . On Linux it not as easy   but it not hard for a power user you have to get root and edit some .conf files is all.

 

Most VPN reviewers complain about the problems but never tell you how to fix them  instead they tell you to pay out way more money for something else that could have a buggy software update anyday and leak themselves . I don't like RestorePrivacy.com  or any  review sites  . I been testing software for almost 19 years even help  Re Teams fix cracks  and all of it is bug prone . I seen cracks after we got done with it that removed bugs that the software devs never fixed . All cracking  is finding a weakness in the software and attacking it  so it will work without paying for it . I got bored of that and switch to to all open source /free software unless i use Windows witch is hardly ever.  VPN software is free its the service you pay for that you have to pay for it cant be used offline and for that reason  any crack will be nuked on the server side if it any good , so you need to buy it or find a giveaway . I only pay for services that i use in free software , But i never pay for any software that don't need a service.to run.

 

Just  like  some paid software on Windows  that require internet  if it have a fully working trial version  it not really a service  always some how the trial version can be reset . And windows I never bought it , I bought PCs and Windows was in the price . Now with Windows 10 its really is still free but they try hide that fact and the most used fix is just a work around to activate  it to your HW ID  without upgrading from older Windows  there even a weakness in there upgrade scheme