I crossed the whole Assia with top vpn for mac installed. It worked flawlesly without speed loses and data-leaks.
How do you check that your VPN connection is a bit slower than 'normal' way ? Can anyone ping its own connection ? Thanks for your kind precisions.
Maybe reading this article will make you realize how dangerous Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Google... are for your privacy but also for your finances. The majority does apparently not realize the risk they take by using programs and applications that have no real additional value, or for which the additional value does not compensate for the risk you take. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/s...onal-data-is-worth-on-the-dark-web-2018-03-20
https://www.dslreports.com/pingtest (shows also the quality of the line, speed alone is not enough) or google "ookla speed test"
Hard to believe. I always have to check a few different servers to find the optimal one. Some can be very slow while others are much faster. Depends also of the load of the server. Servers with 75% load are slower then servers with 10% load. Location has an influence too.
I compare it with buying a car. Some cars are 1 second faster in acceleration from 0-60. And their topspeed is not 175 mph but 180. But in real life and normal use, you never notice the difference. The same logic applies to VPN but with one huge difference: safety with or without VPN is a world of difference. If you need special software to detect if VPN is slower or not you prove that the difference is negligible. If your download speed is 150Mb/sec instead of 200 you will Not notice it; if your ping is 50ms instead of 15 you will not notice it. I need less theN 1MB/sec to run all my trading programs. I trade many times from a hotel that definitely does not have huge bandwith, and I have no problem from that. But using VPN or not, you will notice quickly. With VPN: the language of alot of websites will be in the language of the place where your log in server is located. So proof that they spy on you. nobody can see your real IP adres and abuse it. you can see information that you might not see without VPN because of geo blocking. I have no FB but probably they would have almost no info on me while using VPN. I know from people that got blocked from FB because they logged in from a different country. So FB is checking this and using it too. ... The only thing you should check is at start when you log in on VPN that the server you use is one of the faster ones. You can see that and change it if you want a faster server or a server in a different location. Switching takes only a few seconds. In Russia (and some other dictatorial countries) VPN is forbidden by law. Guess why. And Vkontakte is even worse then FB when it concerns privacy. It was taken over by Putin. The original developpers even had to run away from Russia. The next war (which has already started) is/will be an information war. Hacking to steal information, to manipulate elections...
If you love your VPN, great. But please, just stop with the conflating things that you don't know anything about. A VPN provides you two things, it ensures that your traffic is encrypted between your computer and the VPN's server, and your traffic comes from the VPN's server IP address rather than your ISPs IP address. You are apparently confused on this second part, very confused. IP addresses aren't terribly unique, you may have the same one for a few days but your ISP can and does change them at random. In fact you have to pay an extra monthly fee if you want yours to remain the same. As a result, they're a very crappy way to track anyone and they're usually used in only a very broad sense to determine what country you're coming from and set the language appropriately. I can tell you exactly what that language setting code looks like in a half dozen languages, and it involves absolutely zero "spying". And while abusing puppies and spouses is horrible, "abusing" IP addresses is a figment of an overactive imagination in the context you appear to be thinking about it. And if you start a sentence with "I've never used product X" ...."but I'm going to tell you all about it", just stop! Cookies are used to track you. Regular cookies and the session cookies that are used to maintain your state when you log into a site. These are Facebook and Google, and Amazon, and the rest use to provide the eerie ads that mirror what you were just searching and the like. Cookies are completely unaffected by a VPN! Massive confusion of poorly understood stuff here, which is making you less safe, not more. A VPN will allow you to get around Netflix's geographical restrictions, that's the only accurate thing you've managed to stumble on here. Otherwise, you've managed to convince yourself that putting on a condom made you bulletproof.
Can you then explain why many countries forbid VPN? Because they are afraid you watch Netflix???? In many specialized magazines you read that one should never go on internet without VPN. So all these people who advice this are idiots? I know that my ISP does not know which websites I visit nor what I do. And for me that's very important, but I will not go in detail for the reason. it is not just about Netflix geo locations. And I never spoke about cookies, and surely not in relation to VPN.