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VPN services offer an excellent way to improve privacy while online. To be precise, good VPN services do, while bad ones either leak your data or sell it outright. Mullvad is considered to be one of the best when it comes to online privacy. The Sweden-based provider gets audited by third-parties regularly and offers several…
Microsoft introduced a new feature that it called Privacy Protection less than two years ago to Microsoft 365 Home and Family plans. The feature gave subscribers access to a VPN service along with 50 gigabytes of traffic per month. Microsoft limited the feature to the Microsoft Defender app, subscribers, and users from a handful of…
Using a VPN makes sense in a lot of situations. To protect your data when using networks that you do not have full control over, to protect your data from being sold by your ISP, or to access content that would be blocked otherwise. Services and ISPs may use filters to limit the use of…
Internet users have a few weapons in their arsenal when it comes to disguising their location. Some have good reasons for wanting to do that, from making sure that activity cannot be traced back to them to watching streaming content that is available only in other regions, or paying less for certain goods and services….
Mullvad announced this week that it has enabled quantum-resistant tunnels in the VPN’s Windows client. The company plans to enable the feature on its mobile clients for Android and iOS in the future as well. This comes just a few months after Mullvad added protections against AI traffic analysis to its VPN. What are quantum-resistant…
Google is informing customers currently that it is shutting down VPN by Google One “later this year”. I reviewed VPN by Google One in March 2023 and concluded that it was “the most basic VPN that you can get”. Subscribers would get access to the VPN if they paid Google at least $1.99 per month….