Private Internet Access is a veteran VPN service in a relatively young market. The company was founded in 2010 by Andrew Lee, an American software developer. Since then, the service has gone through significant changes.<\/p>\n
On the bright side, PIA revamped its service, growing the company quickly. Improvements have taken place on several fronts, including infrastructure size, geographical coverage, technology, and marketing.<\/p>\n
Over the last few years, PIA has established itself as a well-known brand and one of the most robust VPN services in the world.<\/p>\n
But there’s also a potentially dark side to this story. The recent company’s ownership change raised some privacy concerns. In 2019, Private Internet Access was acquired by Kape Technologies PLC [1]<\/a>. The software firm is the owner of\u00a0CyberGhost<\/a>, ZenMate, and, more recently, ExpressVPN<\/a>. So, Kape now owns three of the most popular VPN services<\/a> worldwide. However, all this tradition in the software industry doesn’t necessarily guarantee trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Private Internet Access is a veteran VPN service in a relatively young market. The company was founded in 2010 by Andrew Lee, an American software developer. Since then, the service has gone through significant changes. On the bright side, PIA revamped its service, growing the company quickly. Improvements have taken place on several fronts, including […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5641,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[22],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-402","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-vpn-provider","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"sale","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"product-type-external"},"acf":{"users_ratings":4.6,"number_of_reviews":"130,553","suitable_for":"","grade_label":"Extraordinary!","recommended_for":"","monthly_visitors":"2,400,000","features_label":"Extraordinary!","features_percentage":"100:Extraordinary!","ease_of_use_label":"Extraordinary!","ease_of_use_percentage":"100:Extraordinary!","pricing_label":"Extraordinary!","pricing_percentage":"100:Extraordinary!","value_label":"Extraordinary!","value_percentage":"100:Extraordinary!"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/402\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=402"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vpnadept.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}