Private Internet Access, or PIA, is a US based software company that offers a virtual private network under the same name. They launched in 2010 and since then, they became one of the most popular VPNs on the market. PIA is known for their strict zero-logs policy and dedication to ensuring total privacy to their users. They offer over 20,000 servers in 70 different countries worldwide. And their app is available on Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS, Android, and they also have browser extensions for Google Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox. PIA uses military-grade encryption technology to protect their users’ personal online details and they use the industry-standard OpenVPN protocol to encrypt data

Pricing and Plans

PIA keeps it simple with pricing : 3.33$/month when buying their 1 year plan beforehand. Not the cheapest, not the most expensive.

Pros and cons

Features

Customer Support

PIA offers 24/7 support in English. They reply quickly to support tickets and users are generally pleased with their response time. PIA also offer live chat support for logged in users between 09:00 – 18:00 Monday to Friday MST. They also have a set of articles and answers to frequently asked questions in the support section on their website. So, if you’re experiencing issues maybe check their FAQs before contacting their support team.

Private Internet Access Review Conclusion

If you are looking to keep yourself safe and protected when using the internet or even when using your device, then a VPN is required. Private Internet Access has gone to extraordinary lengths to provide the most secure VPN currently available.

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The Ivacy VPN service based in Singapore. It has more than 450+ servers in 100+ locations, in 50+ countries. IvacyVPN is compatible with mobile applications for Android, iPhone and iPad devices, desktop software for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems, internet browser extension for Chrome, and compatibility with routers, Kodi, Xbox, Blackberry, and Smart TVs. Ivacy VPN 256-bit encryption provides a full focus on customers’ online privacy, it offers anonymous internet browsing, unblock sites and services, and privacy while torrenting.

Pricing and Plans

With its low price of $2.25 per month for a 2-year plan, Ivacy is one of the cheapest players on the market.

They also offer:

• regular monthly plan – $7.50,
• 1-year plan – $3.50 per month,
• 6-month plan – $4.33 per month,

Furthermore, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee with no questions asked.

Pros and cons

Features

Customer Support

Ivacy delivers above-average levels of customer support and have agents available 24/7 via live chat should you run into any difficulties. From our experience, questions were answered quickly and thoroughly, and we found the staff to be friendly and highly knowledgeable. They also have a comprehensive FAQ and helps section on their website with a full range of setup guides and information on how to get the best from their VPN.

Ivacy Review Conclusion

Ivacy is also phenomenally good value when purchased on a long-term deal through our website at only $1.16 per month, and considering it comes with a 30-day money back guarantee and their huge generosity of protecting up to 10 devices with the 1 subscription, you’ve got nothing to lose giving Ivacy a go!

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ZenMate is a VPN that was founded by two friends: Simon and Marcus from Germany, who wanted to make the whole internet freely available for everyone. Frustrated by geographic restrictions while traveling, Simon Specka arrived back home from an international trip, determined to dedicate his life to this mission.

Pricing and Plans

ZenMate pricing starts at $10.99 billed monthly, within the typical $10-$13 range we see with most providers.

If you’re thinking that’s a little more than you’d like to pay, no problem: ZenMate’s three-year plan is considerably cheaper at a tiny $1.64 a month.

Pros and cons

Features

Customer Support

At the moment, customers can only connect to the ZenMate customer support staff through email. The support personnel offer responses in less than a span of 24 hours.

VyprVPN Review Conclusion

ZenMate offers a low-cost three-year subscription, no limits on connections, and a reliable workaround for region controls on Netflix and Disney+.

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Hola is one of the better-known names associated with VPNs. A product of the Israel-based Hola Networks Ltd., this service has amassed over 180 million users since its launch in 2012. It markets itself as the first peer-to-peer VPN on the market, but we don’t think it’s a good thing.

Pricing and Plans

Apart from its free option, Hola VPN offers 3 pricing plans for a Plus subscription: 3 years at $2.99/month, 1 year at $7.69/month, or 1 month at $14.99. As usual with VPN subscription models, the longest subscription will save you the most money (on a monthly basis).

Pros and cons

Features

Both the free and premium version comes with a ton of fantastic features. Let’s take a look at all the details.

P2P Network

Hola VPN’s P2P network is community-powered and routes your traffic through other idle peers. The main benefit is that it’s cheaper than a global network of servers.

This is why Hola VPN can offer a free version. The speeds are likely to be better as there is little encryption involved. The service claims that routing traffic through peers instead of servers makes it harder to detect or block the traffic.

Kill Switch

If the VPN connection is temporarily lost, Kill Switch ensures that external agents can’t exploit your device’s vulnerability. Enabling this feature stops your device from connecting to the internet until the VPN connection is reestablished. The Hola VPN client allows you to select which apps you want to ‘kill’ in case of a connection drop.

Customer Support

You can get support from Hola VPN in 2 ways:

• Email support
• FAQ/knowledgebase

Hola VPN Review Conclusion

Hola doesn’t add extra protection – on the contrary, it takes it away.

At best, it’s a hybrid VPN for accessing blocked content. At worst, it’s a risky service with no security or privacy features and a history of misconduct.

Let’s put the many issues aside for a moment. Hola is fast and useful for unblocking. With a peer-to-peer connection, you can (in theory) deal better with regional blocks, especially in the United States.

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HMA is a popular VPN provider with a large network of 1,100+ servers in 210+ countries.

Some of this VPN’s biggest strengths are its user-friendly interface, impressive speeds, and ability to bypass geoblocks (even Netflix’s!)

Pricing and Plans

HMA offers three pricing plans, each with the same features. As is common with VPNs, HMA’s longer subscription plans offer a better value for your money.

The subscriptions are affordable and reasonable for HMA’s quality of service. However, the discounts offered on HMA’s longer plans aren’t as big as those offered by some other high-quality VPNs.

HMA also has a 7-day free trial and a 30-day money-back guarantee, so you can try out the service risk-free. This is a great option if you can’t decide if HMA is the right choice for you.

Pros and cons

Features

The way HideMyAss’ options are spread out across multiple menu tabs can make finding all the settings a bit challenging, but the VPN actually offers a variety of nice-to-have features. For starters, it covers the two things we always look for in every VPN: a kill switch and a way to set up some type of automatic connection for when you boot up your device.

Customer Support

Like many other VPN providers, HideMyAss provides live chat support. Their support staff appears to be located in the United Kingdom.

HideMyAss Review Conclusion

The service with the largest network on the market, HideMyAss has a great interface and decent pricing.

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Surfshark operates around 1040 servers spread across more than 60 countries — which, the company claims, should be more than enough to deliver fast download and upload speeds for its users.

These servers, however, are not equally spread across the globe with just a few being located in Africa and the Middle East. Specifically, in this region(s) – Surfshark has servers in Israel, Libya, South Africa, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. That, however, is not necessarily bad since most users end up requiring (and thus connecting to) servers in Europe and North America.

Surfshark emphasizes that it has a private DNS on each server — which is an important feat security-wise.

Surfshark claims to maintain great speeds, be incredibly secure, unblock Netflix, and offer 24/7 support. A budget VPN that offers as much as Surfshark does seems a little fishy. So I signed up to this VPN and tested it against other popular VPNs to see if it really delivers.

I was surprised to see that Surfshark really does live up to its claims of being a consistent and reliable service, both in terms of security and performance. It was great for streaming, torrenting, and gaming, which makes it superbly value-for-money at its low price.

Pricing and Plans

Surfshark is very reasonably priced. It’s one of the cheapest options around. As with most other VPNs, you receive a discount when you subscribe for a longer period. A monthly subscription costs $11.95 per month, a 1-year subscription costs $5.99 per month, and a 2-year subscription costs only $1.99 per month. On their website, these prices are also available in euros, AUS/CAN dollars, Chinese yuan, and British pounds.

Pros and cons

Features

Surfshark has several other features to help keep you safe while online. Some of the more notable ones include:

• Kill switch
• CleanWeb ad and malware blocker
• Whitelister split tunneling feature
• Built-in WebRTC, IPv6, and DNS leak protection
• Double-VPN through the MultiHop feature
• Auto-connect to VPN when you start your device
• BlindSearch — a log and ad-free private search engine
• HackLock alerts you if your emails or passwords are found in a leaked database
• Protect an unlimited number of devices simultaneously

Customer Support

Surfshark has three options for contacting customer service: email, tickets, and live chat. There should be a representative available 24/7 to resolve any problems you may have. There’s also a thorough Help Center, with a variety of setup guides, tutorials, app guides, and a FAQ section. We tested all of these support options to see just how helpful the company truly was.

Through my tests, live chat seemed to be the best way to contact customer service. However, for most simple issues, I didn’t need to look much further than Surfshark’s Help Center.

Surfshark Review Conclusion

Surfshark is a solid all-round VPN offering top-notch security and privacy features. It may not be the best option out there, but it’s definitely not the worst. And for the price, it offers a hard to beat package that goes well beyond basic VPN service.

You can rely on it for streaming and torrenting, with included extra features like CleanWeb and MultiHop, delivering a that much better — and more secure — experience.

Surfshark, the company, is based in British Virgin Islands and with its zero-logs policy makes for a powerful combo to anyone looking to keep its web whereabouts under the radar.

The service is easy to use and comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

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inCloak Network Ltd. is the company that owns HideMy.name. It is headquartered in the beautiful Belize city where no surveillance program is conducted by the government. It is nowhere related to any of the Fourteen Eyes, and hence, the user is safe from the government.

Pricing and Plans

There are six options under which you can purchase this provider’s services: 1-month at $8/month, 6-month at $4/month (charged $24 every 6 months), 1-year at $3/month (charged $36 every year), 2-year at $2.5/month (billed $60 every 2 years), 3-year at $2.4/month ($86 every 3 years), and even a 5-year subscription at $2/month (billed $120 every 5 years). These rates are among the cheapest on the market.

Pros and cons

HideMy.name  Features

• If we talk about the key features of HideMy.name VPN, I would say that there’s not much that you’re going to get. That’s something I do wish gets improved in future updates. But anyway, here are some of the features of HideMy.name VPN:
  1. 256-bit AES encryption
  2. Kill Switch
  3. Auto-reconnect
  4. Speed & ping test
  5. Chameleon protocol
  6. SOCKS5 proxy

Customer Support

HideMy.name has user-friendly native apps for Windows, Android, Mac, iOS, and Linux devices but can also be configured on routers with the help of detailed manual setup instructions available on the website.

HideMy.name Review Conclusion

HideMy.name gave us an impression of a very serious and dedicated VPN provider, with a team that knows what it’s doing and is so confident in its platform that it is willing to let you test it AND give you your money back if you’re not completely satisfied.

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CyberGhost VPN is a software that was developed by a private company based in Romania that specializes in network security and privacy protection. The VPN software was first released in 2011 and is currently owned by an Israeli company called Kapa Technologies plc. At present, cyber ghost boasts of more than 15 million users.

CyberGhost is all about helping you become a ghost while surfing the Internet. They aim to protect you so that you’re not seen when you’re online, you don’t leave any footprints where you’ve been, and there is never a record of your actions.

CyberGhost VPN is an excellent VPN provider choice. Looking at their policy, and the fact that they allow all P2P traffic on nearly all servers, you may rank them as your number one VPN provider if you do a lot of P2P downloading or torrenting.

Pricing and Plans

The price of CyberGhost’s monthly subscription plan hasn’t changed much over the years, but the company updated its packages. It currently has four pricing plans based on the longevity of the purchase:

• $2.50/month, billed every three years
• $3.69/month, billed every two years
• $5.25/month, billed yearly
• $12.99/month, billed monthly

Pros and cons

CyberGhost Features

First, you should know that this VPN service covers the basics quite well. When you connect to a secure server, all your Web connection data becomes encrypted. You get a new IP address, and there’s a whole set of underlying technologies that keep you safe on the Internet. For example, anti-fingerprinting technology protects information about your system from leaking. There’s also a kill-switch designed to stop all Web data in case a secure connection drops, thus not leaking your data. And also, DNS and IP leak protection are there to give you an all-new virtual identity.

Now, the latest version of CyberGhost brings some welcome granular controls over your connection. Using ‘Connection Features,’ you can find a set of ON/OFF switches to enhance your Web connection. For example, you can instruct CyberGhost to block ads and malicious websites, prevent online tracking, redirect you to HTTPS by default, and even compress data.

And finally, let’s not forget to mention a new feature called ‘Smart Rules.’ Using this option, you can instruct CyberGhost how to behave in certain situations. For example, you can enable the VPN to launch on system startup and then to connect automatically. You can also instruct CyberGhost to auto-connect when you use an unsecured WiFi network.

Customer Support

CyberGhost VPN has several support channels. There is even a live-chat functionality, which is useful should you wish to obtain quick answers to your queries. We contacted their support via chat to check their response times and were amazed by their quick responses. Also, you can count on a dedicated help center with plenty of guides and FAQs. All in all, you’ll always get help if you encounter any roadblock.

CyberGhost Review Conclusion

Right off the bat, CyberGhost is not the fastest VPN you will use. However, affordability is one of its key selling points and for its price, you will be getting the best value.

My biggest concern with the software has been with its parent company, Kape Technologies (formerly Crossrider) who have in the past been accused of distributing malware in their software bundles.

However, CyberGhost has given me a lot of confidence in how they have transparently dealt with the issue, maintaining that they operate independently. And since they are based in Romania they are under no obligation to provide user data to any government including the US.

The overall performance of the software is great and Torrenters will particularly be happy since the VPN offers dedicated servers that are optimized for torrenting.

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ExpressVPN is one of the most popular VPN providers in the industry. The success of this VPN rests on superb performances and the company’s customer-friendly policy that will now analyze in our ExpressVPN review.

An excellent 24/7 customer support, a super-fast connection with excellent download speeds, one of the best encryption algorithms on the market and a user-friendly app all contribute to highly satisfied clients. Additionally, the strict “no-logs” policy enhances your online security. Moreover, you can use it to watch Netflix from all around the world.

Pricing and Plans

ExpressVPN offers three different service plan options. You can purchase a 1-month plan for $12.95, billed monthly; a 6-month plan for $9.99 per month, billed as $59.95 every 6 months; or a 12-month plan, their most popular option, at $8.32 per month, billed as $99.95 annually. You can pay with credit card, PayPal, Bitcoin, or Paymentwall and all three plan options include a “no-hassle” 30-day money-back guarantee.

Pros and cons

ExpressVPN Features

ExpressVPN claims that the five top benefits of its service are to stay private, save money, defeat censorship, encrypt everything, and extend your coverage.Those are basically the same claims made by VPNs across the board. They offer VPN split tunneling so you can choose to route some of your device traffic through a VPN while letting the remainder access the internet directly. They offer 24/7 live tech support and apps for every device.

ExpressVPN also provides Smart DNS which allows you to use geo-spoofing to resolve your DNS requests at the location of your choice. Smart DNS will function on any internet-ready device, regardless of whether it can run VPN software. You can anonymize your browsing and “spoof” your location on any streaming media player, smart TV, game console, or e-reader, and access content that may have been denied to you based on your physical location.

Customer Support

ExpressVPN has many ways that you can find answers to questions or problems that you may have. You can use their 24/7 online chat to get answers to many of your questions. If they are not able to help you or you are having connection issues, you can create an email ticket to help solve your issues. This will let you include any files that can help their support team solve your problem.

NordVPN Review Conclusion

You can see that ExpressVPN custom software has been designed to ensure your online traffic by securing it with a robust OpenVPN implementation. They guard against MitM attacks. It secures both the control and data channels with encryption and verification algorithms. Finally, they implement PFS to protect your Internet traffic going forward and limit any exposure if your personal security is breached. In short, all of your Internet traffic is securely protected while using the ExpressVPN service.

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Since 2012, NordVPN has been offering VPN security solutions for both personal and business use. More than likely you’ve seen their TV ads or sponsored YouTube videos online, but how reliable are they as a service? In this personal NordVPN review I’m going to take my 6 years of experience using the service to cover what they’ve done right…and what you need to know before you decide to sign up.

Some of the major selling points of the NordVPN service are the massive global network of more than 5,000 servers, high-speed fibre connections and optimisations to support P2P servers as well as video and music streaming from other nations around the world. No matter which country that you live in, you’re able to connect to just about any country in the world through NordVPN.

Pricing and Plans

NordVPN offers customers four different pricing structures depending on the length of time you want to use their service for.

NOTE: All prices listed below are in USD, and are correct as at April 2020.

1 Month price:

• $11.95 USD per month
• Billed once every month.
• 30-day money-back guarantee.

1 Year price:

• $6.99 USD per month.
• Billed $83.88 every year.
• 30-day money-back guarantee.
• This price represents a 41% saving over the standard Monthly price.

2 Years price:

• $4.99 USD per month.
• Billed $119.76 every 2 years
• 30-day money-back guarantee.
• This price represents a 58% saving over the standard Monthly price.

3 Years price:

• $3.49 USD per month.
• Billed $125.64 billed every 3 years
• 30-day money-back guarantee.
• This price represents a 70% saving over the standard Monthly price.

Pros and cons

Features

This NordVPN review will be incomplete if I don’t discuss its highlight features. The Servers section in the app opens a new set of options you can take advantage of. Apart from the complete list of 61 nations where they host around 1300+ VPN servers, you can find collections of servers for things like Double VPN, Onion over VPN, P2P, Anti DDoS, etc.

With Double VPN, NordVPN lets you access websites and services over two consecutive VPN servers. It claims that the second VPN server doesn’t know your actual IP as it’s already hidden by the first one.

Moreover, if you’re a big-time fan of the Tor network, you can club NordVPN with the same using the Onion over VPN servers. There are also servers listed explicitly for the people who prefer P2P services like BitTorrent.

The Servers page also shows the details (speed, load, etc.) about the server you’re currently connected. For a specific country, you can explore the list of available servers by hovering on its name and clicking the menu button.

Head over to the Settings section; you will find various toggle buttons for notifications, turning on NordVPN at Windows startup, start minimized, etc. CyberSec is a new addition that NordVPN says it can remove phishing and other malware-related threats while you use their VPN service.

Customer Support

NordVPN offers 24/7 customer support.

The best way to contact the company is by online ticket system, email, or live chat. You can expect to receive an almost instantaneous response with live chat.

NordVPN Review Conclusion

NordVPN is a full-featured, privacy-centric VPN service with a solid reputation.

The fact that it’s based out of Panama, a country with great online privacy laws, is its major highlight for us.

Add on the fact that it’s just as good for safely accessing public Wi-Fi as it is for getting past Internet censors in restricted regions, and it’s easy to see why the service is so popular with privacy-focused customers in Europe.

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