Talk:AnchorFree

Info about NSA leeching is missing

Article states "AnchorFree has data centers in the United States, Japan, Germany and Switzerland, locations which are only partly subject to Internet censorship". This is a bad joke in the case of Germany where access to certain websites is blocked by order of government and industry (youtube blocks 61.5 % of all videos for viewers from Germany), and where free speech has been cut back drastically (former Stasi members controlling and blocking users and comments of facebook on behalf of the German government). Also, the program itself is nothing less than a trojan of the foreign espionage agency NSA https://vpn-anbieter-vergleich-test.de/hotspotshield-nsa-trojaner-usa-ueberwachung-dienst/ Everyone is invited to research the management and the persons and organizations behind this company. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:46:1A12:9502:6478:BA19:E8F2:F62E (talk) 08:45, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

Update needed

AnchorFree no longer exists, it was acquired by Pango (which has no article of its own). User:U193581 | Talk 15:42, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Factual errors in the "Acquisition" section regarding "Israeli roots" and founding dates

The "Acquisition" section currently contains several major factual inaccuracies that conflate three entirely different companies. It claims that Aura is an "Israeli-founded cybersecurity company" and that Pango was "established in Israel in 2017 with strong Israeli roots." Both of these statements are false and appear to be the result of a corporate name mix-up.

Here is a breakdown of the correct corporate histories:

• AnchorFree / Pango Group Origins: AnchorFree (which later changed its corporate name to Pango Group) was founded in California in 2005 by David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky. It was not established in Israel, nor was it established in 2017.
• Aura's Origins: The cybersecurity company Aura, which acquired Pango Group in 2020, is headquartered in the Boston area and was founded in 2017 by Hari Ravichandran. It is a US-based company, not an Israeli-founded one.
• The Likely Confusion: The editor who originally added this text likely confused the US VPN/cybersecurity companies with completely unrelated Israeli companies that share the exact same names: the highly popular Israeli smart-parking app called Pango, and Israeli tech/real estate entities named Aura (such as IronSource's "Aura" software or the real estate firm Aura Israel).

Here are some links that I managed to find that might clarify this:

• Regarding AnchorFree/Pango Group's Origins (California, 2005):

Forbes: "How To Thwart Hackers And Dictators With One Free Download" (Profiles David Gorodyansky and the 2005 founding of AnchorFree in California). Link: https://www.forbes.com/companies/anchorfree/

• Regarding Aura's Origins (Boston/Burlington, 2017):

Entrepreneur Magazine: "This Serial Entrepreneur Had His Identity Stolen. It Led Him to Build a $1.5 Billion Company..." (Profiles Hari Ravichandran and the 2017 launch of Aura). Link: https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/a-stolen-identity-led-to-a-15-billion-company-heres/481504

• Regarding the 2020 Acquisition:

PR Newswire (Official Press Release, July 7, 2020): "Aura Acquires Digital Privacy and Security Company Pango" Link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aura-acquires-digital-privacy-and-security-company-pango-301088715.html

• Regarding the Unrelated Israeli "Pango" App:

Apple App Store (Israel): "פנגו - Pango" by Pango Pay and Go Ltd. (This is the Israeli transit/parking app that the original editor likely confused with the US VPN company). Link: https://apps.apple.com/il/app/%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%92%D7%95-pango/id434818173

Can an editor please review the published corporate histories and executive bios of David Gorodyansky and Hari Ravichandran in reliable tech publications and correct this section? ~2026-15087-58 (talk) 20:25, 9 March 2026 (UTC)