I personally use vpn's not just because i want to hide my ip and identity when browsing, but to circumvent ISPs who geo block websites and those who throttle speed or in some cases threaten you with a lawsuit when torrenting.
A lot of free and paid servers are sprouting like mushrooms right now, some go as low as $3 a month for premium service which is very useful when torrenting but if you look deeper in the VPN scene you will see that you don't have to spend a penny to get a decent VPN.
So here you go, my short list of free VPNs, feel free to comment below if you want to share your own lists. I will be updating this list as we move towards 2020...
Feel free to run your own VPN Gate server and contribute to the community, no registration required.
A lot of free and paid servers are sprouting like mushrooms right now, some go as low as $3 a month for premium service which is very useful when torrenting but if you look deeper in the VPN scene you will see that you don't have to spend a penny to get a decent VPN.
So here you go, my short list of free VPNs, feel free to comment below if you want to share your own lists. I will be updating this list as we move towards 2020...
The best free VPNs of 2019
1. Proton VPN
From the same team that developed Protonmail, claimed as the world's largest most secure email service, developed by CERN and MIT.
As you can see below, the speed of my internet is almost the same with or without VPN. At times using this VPNs is surprisingly faster especially if the Netherlands server is not full since I'm in Dublin and closer to the Netherlands. I only use US servers if Netherlands is full, unfortunately during the posting of this blog.
Also, mobile internet is slow in my room as I only get H+ signal here. 😢
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| With VPN |
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| Without VPN |
Pros:
- Free 7 day trial
- Free servers are still fast after the trial
- Has P2P and Onion Servers on the paid versions
- Available on PC, Android and MacOS
Cons:
- No free P2P server
2. VPN Gate
Hats off this is my best choice for now. Powered by Softether, these FREE VPN servers are provided by volunteers like me, yes I run a public VPN Gate server myself! So everyone can communicate with each other using the internet without any restrictions.
"VPN Gate Academic Experiment Project is an online service as an academic research at Graduate School of University of Tsukuba, Japan. The purpose of this research is to expand the knowledge of "Global Distributed Public VPN Relay Servers"
Pros:
- Totally FREE and run by volunteers
- Available on almost any platform. Windows, *nix, Android, Mac OS
- P2P is available on most servers
- Thousands of free servers from all over the world
- Anonymous connection requires no registration
- Supports SSL-VPN (SoftEther VPN) protocol, L2TP/IPsec protocol, OpenVPN protocol and Microsoft SSTP protocol.
Cons:
- Volunteers can shut off their servers anytime
- Bandwidth can be limited by server owners
- Prone to abuse since it's free and anonymous
To be continued...
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