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Connecting HoneyGain to NordVPN and Parent Company OxyLabs
On May 19th, 2021 it was made public through a PR campaign that HoneyGain signed an exclusivity agreement with OXYLABS for long term traffic demand. Reference : https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/honeygain-signs-an-exclusivity-deal-to-ensure-long-term-traffic-demand-301251137.html .
OxyLabs is a company within the TESONET portfolio which can be seen here : https://tesonet.com/companies/ .
Sandra Krikstaponyte was the previous product owner at OXYLABS. Ironically she became the Product Director at Honeygain in June of 2022 based on her linkedin. Looking at DNB it is clear that she was always the 1 and only company director.
All employees of HoneyGain that do in fact have Linkedin, all have one common denominator. They are all ex-leadership members from OxyLabs.
Some examples are below :
Name: Adomas Odinas Eigirdas
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adomas-odinas-eigirdas-138152163/
Position: Quality Assurance Specialist @ HoneyGain - May 2023 - Present
Previous: Quality Assurance Specialist @ Oxylabs.io - Dec 2022 - May 2023
Name: Lukas Stankovičius
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-stankovicius/
Position: Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ HoneyGain - Jun 2023 - Present
Previous: Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Oxylabs.io - Apr 2023 - Jun 2023
Name: Žygimantas S.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sakalinskas/
Position: Site Reliability Engineer @ HoneyGain - May 2023 - Present
Previous: Site Reliability Engineer @ Oxylabs.io - Jul 2022 - Jun 2023
Name: Rytis M.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rytis-malakauskas/
Position: Lead Site Reliability Engineer @ HoneyGain - Apr 2023 - Present
Previous: Lead Site Reliability Engineer @ Oxylabs.io - Dec 2022 - Apr 2023
Name: Greta Anuskytė
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/greta-anuskyt%C4%97-482a12171/
Position: Accounting Operations Specialist @ HoneyGain - Oct 2022 - Present
Previous: Accounting Operations Specialist @ Oxylabs.io - Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
Name: Lukas Rakauskas
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukas-rakauskas/
Position: Frontend Engineer @ HoneyGain - May 2023 - Present
Previous: Frontend Engineer @ Oxylabs.io - Aug 2022 - May 2023
Name: Skomantas Sukackas
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skomantas-sukackas-268b3b15b/
Position: Junior Data Analyst @ HoneyGain - Apr 2023 - Present
Previous: Junior Data Analyst @ Oxylabs.io - Jun 2022 - Apr 2023
Name: Mantas Džiaugys
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mantas-dziaugys/
Position: Android Developer @ HoneyGain - May 2023 - Present
Previous: Android Developer @ Oxylabs.io - Feb 2019 - May 2023
Name: Domantas Onaitis
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/domantas-onaitis-616764153/
Position: Sales Team Lead @ HoneyGain - May 2023 - Present
Previous: Account Manager @ Oxylabs.io - Mar 2022 - May 2023
Name: Darius Misiukevičius
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/misiukevicius-darius/
Position: Risk And Operations Manager @ HoneyGain - Mar 2023 - Present
Previous: PM @ Oxylabs.io - Jun 2018 - Mar 2023
Name: Justas Gervinskas
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justasgervinskas/
Position: Lead Project Manager @ HoneyGain - Mar 2023 - Present
Previous: Project Manager @ Oxylabs.io - Sep 2019 - Mar 2023
Name: Marius D.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marius-dubinovas/
Position: Customer Success Team Lead @ HoneyGain - Apr 2023 - Present
Previous: Customer Success Team Lead @ Oxylabs.io - Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
Name: Sandra Krikštaponytė
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandra-krik%C5%A1taponyt%C4%97-a79ba4107/
Position: Product Director @ HoneyGain - Jun 2022 - Present
Previous: Product Owner at Oxylabs.io @ Oxylabs.io - May 2022 - Jun 2022
Based on this it is very clear TO ME that OxyLabs owns Honeygain and it is undeniable at this point. That is my perspective on this information.
- Whistlethis 3y agoConclusion : I would like to hear what others have to say however my opinion is that this evidence shows a direct relationship between OxyLabs and Honeygain and it is very likely that OxyLabs is the owner of HoneyGain behind the scenes.
- xchip 3y agoThanks for this, NordVPN and all these VPNs have been fishy from the beginning, so thanks again for providing proofs.
- Whistlethis 3y agoNot all VPN companies are fishy. Some legitimate VPN companies do exist in the industry. That said, this specific scenario is especially concerning because of the blatant proof. If you look closely every single employee moved from OxyLabs to HoneyGain and they did not even put any effort to conceal it because they took the exact same position at HoneyGain. Rather than pedalling my own opinion though, I would really like to know your opinion and the opinion of other readers on YCombinator. This is a strictly OPINION based article where I am simply laying out facts that are publicly available online. It's interesting how the term "publicly available information" does not always work in the favour of data scraping entities.
- antman77 3y agoThis is funny for sure. I am not surprised though. Wasn't OxyLabs caught up in something with ProtonVPN and a web of lies at one point? Is it really even news to hear that they are broiled up in yet another attempt to do something shady in the VPN industry?
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- Whistlethis 3y agoOxyLabs has asked their employees to as quickly as possible remove evidence of honeygain + oxylabs from their linkedin profiles.Luckily I have screenshots of most of them and there is clear evidence left behind. Come on oxylabs. Respond to this instead of trying to hide the truth. You operate a botnet + P2P Reverse Proxy platform called Honeygain and you're trying to infiltrate VPN companies by selling services to them as a company name that you don't publicly disclose as being related to OxyLabs/NordVPN!