Tom’s Guide has nothing to do with Tom, and it’s not for privacy oriented people.
Case in point: In the article they link their top 5 VPN picks for 2025. Those being NordVPN, Surfshak, ExpressVPN, Proton and PIA. And for some reason the site has a hate-boner for Mullvad, and keeps mocking it in this article, and others for not having all “features” the others do, not paying for audits, etc.
The project is backed by multiple ministers and has the support of other Nordic transport ministers, it’s in cooperation with NATO, and the EU will pay for half the project and do 30% of the work. It’s also several years away from being close to starting.
And it has absolutely zero to do with how the trains run or how modern they are, it’s about making a new connection to the rest of Europe for ease of defense. It’s not just about cutting off Russia, it’s about getting tanks and such in by train. As well as having a commercial connection to strengthen trade.
You literally sound like a Russian disinformation actor who wants to hold Finland back.
If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.
It’s mostly just morons hacking and slashing with zero understanding. They literally just search for “climate”, “trans”, etc. to cut funding and remove access without checking anything, they just assume they’re correct.
And then when theyr’e called out they just lie and double down. Case in point, they refuse to admit they confused “transgenic” with “transgender” to the point where they made a post on the white house website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/ (For reference, it was alzheimers research)
The real scary part is that there are people who have an inkling of what they’re doing, and you’re not hearing much about the things they’re changing.
I think the biggest one by value is Meta with €1.2b. Although their revenue is in the $150b+ range, so not maxed out.
Lufthansa and Air France might have some massive fines incoming.
A private company is selling cheap tablets to inmates to let them communicate with their family. They have to use “digital stamps” to send messages, 35 cents a piece and come in packs of 5, 10 or 20. Each stamp covers up to 20,000 characters or one single image.
They also sell songs, at $1.99 a piece, and some people have spent thousands over the years. That’s also now just going away.
Then you get to the part about the new company. Who already has a system in Tennessee where inmates have to pay 3-5 cents per minute of tablet usage. Be that watching a movie they’ve bought or just typing a message.
I don’t want to go all conspiracy theorist, but there seems to have been a serious push to villify Signal over the last year or so.
Get your head out of your ass and learn to read. No one likes the “Uhm akshually, that’s not technically true” -guy. Especially when they’re techinically wrong(it’s not talking about no-logging for your entire browsing session, just that the VPN doesn’t store logs of your usage. And that is very much a thing, as proven by this court case).