8 matches
Gen Digital Inc. · Productivity
Reviews overwhelmingly cite updates that break login and setup, constant disconnects and toggle/auto-connect bugs, and users say they are switching to Nord or Proton; VPN is a commodity, though a small team would face heavy competition.
Gen Digital Inc. · Utilities
Most complaints are about recent updates breaking things: an unstable VPN, sign-out and login loops, a white screen, battery drain and an overblocking web filter. Billing and upsell anger plus scam perceptions are secondary themes. The brand moat is strong, but the iOS features themselves (VPN, safe browsing, breach alerts) are commodities.
Mullvad VPN AB · Utilities
Most complaints are about the client getting worse: disconnect loops after updates, battery drain, stuck connections, removed OpenVPN and DNS servers. On top of that, IP blocking and censorship-country failures reflect infrastructure limits rather than the app.
McAfee, LLC. · Utilities
The decline is a mix of causes. A cluster of VPN breakage around an iOS update (26.x) looks partly platform-driven, but it went unfixed by McAfee for weeks. On top of that, a disliked UI redesign in v10.9, stuck notifications and broken support screens point to product rot. Persistent complaints about deceptive auto-renewals and price jumps add to the dissatisfaction. Overall the trend reads as neglect and worse UX, layered on long-standing monetization anger.
Total Security Limited · Utilities
Reviews are dominated by aggressive upsells, deceptive trials and add-ons, billing after cancellation, cancellation obstacles and refusal of refunds. These are monetization dark patterns rather than product decay.
IPVanish, Inc. · Utilities
Most recent complaints are about billing: trials converting to $90 annual charges, auto-renewals at much higher prices, cancellations not honored and refunds refused. A secondary thread is product decay (drops, slow congested servers, login and subscription-sync bugs).
Betternet LLC · Productivity
Most complaints target aggressive ad gating, shrinking free time, a hard paywall and surprise trial charges, with secondary reliability and censorship-blocking issues.
AnchorFree, LLC · Productivity
The recent decline is driven mostly by aggressive unskippable ads in the free tier, paywall dark patterns and surprise trial charges. Alongside that, reliability complaints (disconnects, slowness, connection hangs after updates) also feature heavily.
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