{"id":2812,"date":"2015-04-14T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T10:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2015-04-14T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T10:30:55","slug":"privateinternetaccess-becomes-linux-mints-main-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=2812","title":{"rendered":"PrivateInternetAccess becomes Linux Mint&#8217;s main sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/linuxmint.com\/img\/partners\/logo\/pia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m happy to announce that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\">PrivateInternetAccess<\/a> is now the primary sponsor for Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<p>PrivateInternetAccess, PIA, is one of the world\u2019s\u00ad leading VPN providers. The company has been praised for their <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/10\/how-one-small-american-vpn-company-is-trying-to-stand-up-for-privacy\/\">policy to never log data<\/a> and for offering some of the lowest subscription prices available. PIA offers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/pages\/network\/\">3,180 servers and 16 countries<\/a> to choose from as well as unlimited bandwidth and up to 5 devices per customer account.<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Many of our in-house developers and marketing staff utilize Linux Mint as a desktop.\u00a0 It is great because everything just works.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>We&#8217;re big fans of open source and sponsor quite a bit of projects as well as other types of organizations that fight for privacies, civil liberties, etc.\u00a0 Since some of us were already using Linux Mint, it made sense!<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among other Open Source projects, PIA also sponsors Freenode and GNOME.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re proud to welcome PIA as our new sponsor and very grateful for the financial help they&#8217;re giving us.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 I&#8217;m happy to announce that PrivateInternetAccess is now the primary sponsor for Linux Mint. PrivateInternetAccess, PIA, is one of the world\u2019s\u00ad leading VPN providers. The company has been praised for their policy to never log data and for offering some of the lowest subscription prices available. PIA offers 3,180 servers and 16 countries to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}