I want a vpn, but I don’t want to spent money for it. Are there any good VPNs thay are free? Are the apps safe, and does it work?
also, is using chrome better than safari?
I heard that chrome blocks sites that redirect/has a virus. Is that true?
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I can’t imagine so. Usually when a service is free, you’re the product being sold.
Every VPN is just as safe as your trust in the VPN provider. Free VPNs make money in some way, probably using and selling your data. They most certainly keep logs. Even a paid VPN provider that says it’s not keeping any logs might keep at least some. If you entrust a provider with your data, you have to take it’s word for your data’s safety. I would say: No VPN is truly safe for keeping all your online activity from the eyes of others, but there might be some providers that are worth the trust of their customers.
TLDR: Paid VPNs can suck, free VPNs suck in any case. Free VPNs might be fine though depending on your usecase.
In my opinion, there are some more trustworthy VPNs than others. For example perfect privacy, mullvad and ovpn.to are generally considered anonymous and trustworthy.
Speaking from an IT security perspective, they are never trustworthy because you didn’t put up the servers yourself.
Speaking from a normal person’s perspective. They are probably safe for your average torrenting.
We know from services like nordvpn that they actively co-operate with law enforcement. We know from the services in the list above that they rather remove specific servers from their list than working with law enforcement.
That’s my take on it. But everyone will have a different opinion and recommendation.
Free VPN services are most likely to save data logs and provide them after request. Their business is not anonymity and they don’t want to get in trouble for it. Mullvad and others make a living by offering/claiming anonymity. For them it is a worthwhile business providing the service and dealing with the repercussions.
In all fairness, I think you always have to answer this as “unknown”.
With that said, are VPNs safe? I ask that because in many cases a company allows a device onto its network via VPN when it was used (in many different ways) on a foreign network. Thus, there is risk. Anyway, something to think about anyhow.
Not sure why you’d want to use a vpn and care about security, HTTPS is just as safe as any vpn and if you wanna change location you don’t need intense security.
For just changing my location tough I’d recommend ProtonVPN tough, it’s free tier is “good enough”.
You are saying Safari so I assume you are on iphone.
It really depends on what you needs to do with a VPN, and the level of “safe” you need. All modern sites and apps uses https (if not https then you should honestly avoid it), so theres no concern of “hackers stealling passwords and drain your bank account” nonsense. ISPs cannot get really useful infomation to use, as https is encrypted. They would be able to know you went to youtube.com, but the wont know you what videos you watched. Having a VPN just means the ISP knows you are using a VPN and the VPN company knows what the ISP knows without the VPN (or even more as they could theoretically MITM you and break the https).
On iOS apps are forced to use the apple webview so no difference to the core of the browser, chrome or safari. Bugs on chrome will happen on safari, too. So it just depends on the shell on top of the core, like the UI or the sync features. I use android so I am not quite sure about safari, so I still recommend chrome from the two.
Chrome does block some malicious sites, but dont trust it 100%. Sites blocked are quite certain to be malicious, but not blocked does not mean it is not.
If you really need a VPN I think ProtonVPN is “good enough”, at least their free tier. Sentinel is also okay as it has multiple exit nodes. But I wont trust either, if you really need that extra security (if any) build a VPN yourself.
Both yes and no. Tor is free. And it is the best as a vpn. Even better than paid ones.
it’s a bot guys, nordvpn got breached a few years ago and they hid the breach from the public
damn. I never thought that. Thanks for the advice!
Ik its been a year but maybe you can speak to the efficacy of a free vpn as opposed to no VPN. Also is there any tips or resources I can use to maybe craft my own makeshift VPN or settings like that?
yeah. Thanks for the advice! Bet i should use a well known vpn.
tysm for the advice! I’ll try ProtonVPN.