> They look really legitimate on the outside

If that looks use-italics "really legitimate" to you, then you might be easily scammed. I'm not saying they're not legitimate, but nothing that you shared is a strong signal of legitimacy.

It would take a perhaps a few hundred dollars a month to maintain a business that looked exactly like this, and maybe a couple thousand to buy one that somebody else had aged ahead of time. You wouldn't have to have any actual operations. Just continuously filed corporate papers, a simple brochure website, and a couple virtual office accounts in places so dense that people don't know the virtual address sites by heart.

Old advice, but be careful believing what you encounter on the internet!

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chmod775 21 hours ago | parent [-]

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Egor3f 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Don't be rude. "Real person" here might live in any country of the world.

And also, why extension for vpn? I live in country where almost everybody uses vpn just to watch YouTube and read twitter, and none of my friends uses some strange extensions. There are open source software for that - from real vpn like wireguard, to proxy software like nekoray/v2raytun. Browser extension is the last thing I would install to be private.

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	▲	nothrabannosir 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>> Don't be rude. > What, there's an issue because I'm not being underhanded about it like [that] guy? Wow you’ve put something into words here I never consciously realized is an unwritten rule. Sounds silly but yea you’re 100% right; that seems to be exactly the game we play. For better or for worse.
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		> being underhanded about it like that (USER) guy? HN guidelines: Assume good faith.
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weird-eye-issue 21 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> you'll have a better shot at dragging an actual person in front of a judge than for 99% of the other crap that's on the chrome web store

Based on what? The same instinct that told you having an address and phone number makes an entity legitimate? The chance the people behind this company live in the US is incredibly low. And even if they do live in the US what exactly would they be getting charged with and who would care enough to charge them?

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