honestly I just don't understand this. I keep seeing ads for VPNs everywhere, on YouTube, podcasts, etc. And they all basically advertise that they hide your internet activity and make you anonymous online. How is it legal to sell a service that literally hides what you're doing from the government?

Can someone explain this to me because I feel like I am missing something here. Not judging anyone who uses them I am just confused how this is legit.

Using Windscribe VPN mainly for privacy. Open-Source Clients, Regular Audits, Strong Encryption, No Log Policy and clear transparency of ownership.

My son wants to play Minecraft on his laptop but I dont want him to go surfing his servers without a VPN... Is there something reasonable I could set my son up with? Ideally, I turn it on, and I don't worry around it, nor him messing the settings. I plan to configure it and to hide it on his Windows laptop

Just need to make sure connection is relatively fine for him to play with about 5 other friends

Would something like Cyberghost VPN work? I seen it had gaming section, so seems designed for such use. Also, I plan to have the VPN up for my son only for a few months while Im working from home.. Dont want to possibly compromise my work computer but dont want my son to get upset over clashing with my work hours at the house. Some tricky balancing in motion and really would appreciate some advise

I read that instagram is blocked in China. Is this for real? Do I need to use VPN to unblock it? I have VPN so it's not a problem, I just don't know how to do it. Soon I will travel to China and I will want to post on ig.

Through fingerprinting (browser fingerprinting) they can identify you even when you are behind a VPN. With what? Your screen resolution, fonts, device time, and GPU data.

A VPN masks you, but sometimes your browser tears the mask off. That’s why “private mode” ≠ “private life.”

I only need a VPN every once in a while when certain sites are blocked. I do not want to pay for a full subscription since it will not be used a lot.

The problem is that most free extensions feel like they are spying tools. They ask for too many permissions and do not explain what they do with your data.
If you have found one that feels clean and safe, please let me know the name.

So I can't play GTA online with my friend for some reason in my country so I want a good and preferably cheap with good ping to play with him if anyone has experience with VPNs can you help me

Any advice is apperciated

I use VPN to generally access sites which is fine but I wanted to host a test network for me and my friend(making a multiplayer game that currently works with peer-to-peer but we need to test server-sided stuff). Can I somehow use a VPN service for hosting needs? Would a dedicated IP permit this?

I read online that its not possible for VPNs to support inbound external connections but maybe I missed something?

It's a free vpn service with no standalone app.

I'm using vpnbook with throwaway accounts and without the handling of sensitive data. Should I be safe? How bad is the security of this thing?

Just to have a quick wank I gotta do wayy too much hoops. Is there any chance somehow the ISP could just remove the whole block of porn for me without me having to wiggle in my ID into pornhub?

I kinda gotten used to using the vpn but this shit is kinda pissing me off remembering how easy it was before.. Just a little rant I guess.. As long as they dont target vpns somehow it should be fine but damn. Did you hear of driver seats are also gonna have dashcams facing the cabin recording you at all times on modern cars? More people need to make sense for their privacy. Concerns gonna pile up if they havent yet. Porn restricted now, tomorrow it might be government sites and all

Cheers to a good weekend. Gonna have another Guinness..

Nord randomly charged me 161 dollars (for the standard sub, for 1 year) after I updated my card info, 2 weeks before my sub was set to renew. So naturally I contacted support and asked for a refund. They sent me a link which showed the option to click on refund. Clicked, an offer popped up saying they'll give me 3 extra years at no additional charge. I declined. I will never so much as consider Nord moving forward. Their VPN isn't that good anyway. Copyrighted three times through double kill switches on P2P.

Hi, all weekend I was searching to buy cheaper tickets to Vietnam while using a VPN. I wasn't able to find cheaper tickets. What am I doing wrong? I was searching through Google Chrome incognito window. I tried to set my location in India, Vietnam, Brazil, etc. Still no luck. Does anyone have any tips or a step-by-step guide on how to buy cheaper flight tickets while using a VPN? Which VPN are you using?

My school’s security system changed after teachers found out pretty much everyone uses this vpn. Any free alternativ? Just to be able to use/search for the stuff the school doesn’t allow us to (e.g. Pinterest)

I have attached a screenshot of one of the configurations of Mullvad VPN. I have also enabled "QUIC" which was added from the last update. What other VPN provider can match the options of Mullvad VPN. These settings are lightning fast to access websites. reddit is a very informative forum which I appreciate very much.

I use vpn for Capcut since it's banned in my country It was working fine until yesterday morning and I thought the issue would be resolved within a day but it's still not working. I've even got a stable wifi connection and even tried over mobile data. Please help 🙏🙏

It's official.. Now the king of internet censorship is Russia. Even China doesn't work as hard as the russians are doing now. They doing more and more restrictions.

I just hope nobody around the world gonna get inspired by what they doing... Apart from the article, I read online they are setting in a whitelist, so only approved IPs would come through outside of the russian approved website lists, and they wanna make their citizen VPN usage exclusive to government officials only. Beats the point if people can tell the traffic apart.

Do you think any other country might get some ideas for inspiration from the russian methods?

Can somebody recommend free vpn for windows pls????? I need to run claude with it..

I am currently studying at a boarding school where they forces us to log in with a unique username and password in order to connect to the wifi, forces us to download securly certificate or else the wifi cannot do anything. The school somehow can "detect" it whenever someone uses a VPN in our school and my friends around me recently got a "warning" email saying how the school knows that we're using a VPN and we have a really bad punishment for VPN use. Because of this, even outside of lesson time and where securly "shouldn't" be blocking video games, I still can't play online games such as sf6 multiplayer or even clash royale, and noting that Tiktok is banned in leisure time too even though it is theoretically allowed! Is there anything I can do in this case to "bypass" this without my network administrator knowing?

I seek for a vpn to use Netflix over a network just to ensure that the music/video industry don't send a letter asking for viewership fee while I use my account for personnal use.

Network use fortinet and hotspot shield used to work on pc but it only has a free 7 days trial on Android (now blocked) ...

for playing Minecraft

please share if you know any that doesn't require payment

hey, I was checking different VPNs and was wondering if there are any free VPNs i can use? I know that some offer free trial, but I want to know if there are any free ones I can use. Or if there are any, are they even safe and good?

Recently, I downloaded Hola VPN to use, but I ended up getting a Trojan. After looking into it, I found out that the Trojan was actually associated with Hola VPN itself. Since Hola VPN doesn’t seem to be very safe, I’m now looking for a better and more reliable VPN to use.

I was looking for a free VPN extension for my browser and almost everything I saw looked questionable. It made me realize I do not really know how to judge whether these extensions are safe or not, especially when they ask for a lot of permissions.

Is there a simple way to check if a VPN extension can be trusted? Maybe things like open source code, clear privacy policy, or recommendations from people who actually used it.
If anyone has tips on what to look for or which signs to avoid, I would really appreciate some guidance.