vpn Service

In some cases, Yes/No are coded red/green, elsewhere the coding is green/red. It would be helpful to provide a brief explanation for non-tech savvy readers, who cannot easily discern how the features are represented as pros or cons for each service. Thoughts? jxm (talk) 08:30, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

At first glance, it appears the lead section of this article (i.e. ‘VPN service’) is a normal encyclopedic one; after scrolling down to see the comparison table, though, parts off it could be seen more as part of an advertisement.

Article history:
1. At least part of this article, if not the entire thing, may have previously existed at:
‘Comparison of virtual private network services’ (redirect link page).
That page was later renamed to ‘Comparison of VPN services’ (redirect link page).
Both are now redirect pages.
2. On June 14, 2021, that content was merged with this article.
Text of the 14 June 2021 revision of VPN service
(‘diff’ comparision to previous revision, showing specifically what was changed on 14 June.)

Question: As all currently listed services appear to be commercial (i.e. service in exchange for payment or other value, not necessarily operated by ‘for profit’ companies), should the article title be changed?

Example new titles:
Commercial VPN service, Commercial VPN services, or VPN service
VPN service providers or VPN services and providers
Subscription VPN services or VPN service

~ ~ ~ ~

(See also: WP:IBA and WP:PROMO)

In the meantime, adding an {{Advert}}* template to the article may be warranted.

* (or several {{Advert inline}}/{{Promotion inline}} templates, to various sentences/paragraphs)

- Jim Grisham (talk) 18:22, 8 July 2022 (UTC)

@PhotographyEdits: Why was the comparison information merged here? Should it be moved back into a comparison article and, if what was in this article before the merge doesn't deserve its own page, should it be moved to Virtual private network? Guy Harris (talk) 19:27, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
@Jim Grisham: @Guy Harris: I think that a "VPN service" is different from a "virtual private network". Yes, they might use the same technologies, such as TLS and OpenVPN, but the way of operating is different: with a VPN service, you are not accessing a remote LAN, which is the common use case of a virtual private network. VPN services are sold as a glorified proxy service. I wanted to use the lede of this article to explain more about the unique aspects of those services, and include more text in later paragraphs. There is a good paper about the history of the commercial services that is already included, but could be utilized more. I prefer to keep the articles with the titles as they are now. The virtual private network article is best used as an explanation for the different technologies and aspects used for site-to-site VPNs in enterprise IT environment, not so much by regular consumers. I think that WP:READERS who are not knowledgable about VPN technologies are better served with a separate article about these commercial services than a subsection in the virtual private network article. I don't think this article is an advertisement, since there is a strict requirement on all services needing to meet the WP:GNG. Please elaborate more if you disagree about this part. I think pruning some information would be reasonable. PhotographyEdits (talk) 16:47, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
Some other editor removed quite a bit of content about the legality and critisim, I have reverted that edit because I think the content belongs here. Though it should be expanded more. PhotographyEdits (talk) 16:56, 9 July 2022 (UTC)