In-depth VPN reviews built on audit records, independent test data, and the fine print providers hope you’ll skip. Every verdict weighs security, speed, streaming, and real renewal pricing — including the flaws.
An unusually open first audit, published with its severity scores intact. And a press release that reports fewer critical findings than the company’s own blog.
A favourable registration, an operation reportedly in another country, and an audit that appears only in descriptions of it. The free tier is genuinely decent.
Good at streaming, genuinely cheap, and unverified in every respect that matters. Its support answer about the missing audit is the whole review in one sentence.
The first VPN to pay for an independent audit, and the only one whose audit now describes a company under different ownership in a different country.
It owns its own server hardware, which almost nobody does. It has also never published an audit, a transparency report or a warrant canary — and its parent owns the outlets that review it.
The tidiest shutdown this industry has produced, and a useful yardstick. Two groups still ended the week without the service they had been using.
The company whose support defined “lifetime” as five years stopped existing about a year later. This is what happened to the people who had already paid.
The provider that most nearly justifies a model we advise against. Its jurisdiction is genuine, its audit is real, and the word lifetime still means something other than what you think.
Every free VPN pays for itself somehow. This one added a silent update that captured what its users typed into ChatGPT and sent it to the data broker that owns it.
Twenty-five studios sued. The settlement cost no money and no customer records — only the function the company is named after, on the servers where it was sued.
