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Best VPN for China in 2016
Are you looking to try out the best VPN for China in 2016? If you’re in China, you must know how great a VPN is in the current age. China has carefully constructed one of the world’s most advanced country-wide firewall, entitled the Golden Shield project. This project works through deep packet inspection to isolate users who are going against internet laws. This means that things poste...[Read More]
What is the Difference between SmartDNS and VPN?
If you’re looking to stream media online, chances are you have heard of VPNs and SmartDNS. However, you might not have a clear idea on the difference between SmartDNS and VPN. Do you need both? One or the other? Which is better, and why? In this article, we’ll give you the answers to those questions, and then some! What is SmartDNS? SmartDNS is essentially a service that enables a DNS re-router. T...[Read More]
New VPN Subreddit Contest
Are you looking for Reddit community with great moderators that can help you with any VPN question you have? Or maybe you’re just tired of how dead /r/VPN has gotten since moderators became more like censorship nazis. It doesn’t matter if you’re a VPN noob with questions or a VPN expert with advice, come check out this new subreddit at reddit.com/r/virtualprivatenetwork. We want ...[Read More]
How to Use TorGuard with Vuze
If you’ve been torrenting with Vuze without some form of proxy or VPN, you’ve been putting your IP address out there for anyone to see. Every computer connected to the internet has an IP address. When you start downloading a torrent, you enter something that is called a BitTorrent swarm. This swarm is a collect of IP addresses distributing data through a peer to peer network where people share dow...[Read More]
How to Torrent with ExpressVPN
If you’ve been torrenting without a good VPN, you’ve put yourself at unnecessary risk from snoopers. There are companies paid to monitor P2P activity, and it’s quite easy for your internet service provider to monitor all of your activity with deep packet inspection.When you’re torrenting, others can see your IP address and find your real world location quite easily. In fact...[Read More]
Is Peerblock still good?
Is Peerblock still good? If you’re looking to increase your anonymity while torrenting, you might be considering using Peerblock. On paper, Peerblock sounds fine. For one, it’s free. Regarding primary use, it blocks bad connections known to be affiliated with governments, corporate entities, or just IPs flagged for anti-p2p activities. However, unlike a VPN, Peerblock has many vulnerabilities and ...[Read More]
Unblock Music Streaming
One of the best ways to listen to music in the early 21st century is through music streaming. If you’re in the right place, you have a lot of great options like Amazon Music, Google Play, Pandora, Spotify–and the list continues. However, if you’re in the wrong place, your IP can be flagged as an outside zone, blocking you from listening to the service that you want. For example, if you’re no...[Read More]
Which VPNs have the Most Countries and Servers?
Every year there are more and more VPNs entering the internet encryption industry. However, not all of these VPNs are equal, with some smaller VPNs having to grow their networks and systems the same way as the VPNs before it. Often this means newer VPNs have trouble competing with older more established VPNs–however, that is not always the case. We’ve seen plenty of VPNs that are older...[Read More]
The Truth about Portable VPN Routers
New small portable VPN routers are engaging security conscious users everywhere. They’ve made massive successful Kickstarter and IndieGoGo campaigns, in some cases raising over $850,000. It’s easy to see that there’s demand for security and encryption in today’s internet-focused world where people strive to protect personal information from companies, governments, and even ...[Read More]
How to Change Your IP Address
Are you looking to change your IP address? Changing your IP address can be useful for many reasons. Maybe you want to access Netflix in a different location, or maybe you want just to hide your original IP address so people can’t find your real world location. Or perhaps, you’re torrenting files, and you don’t want anyone to know about your P2P activity, regardless of what you’re downloading. At t...[Read More]
Cheaper Airline Tickets with a VPN
If you’ve ever had to deal with airlines, you know that their websites are often quite hard to deal with. Whether it’s slow loading pages, or just cluttered interfaces that seem intent on making travel that much harder–it hardly ever feels like an easy process, much less a fair one. It’s not uncommon at all to be searching for prices for tickets for a flight to have them ch...[Read More]
Best Privacy Search Engines
While Google is a great search engine, they do track your data and results to serve up better results for targeted ads and search engine results. If you don’t want your search engine collecting information and using it, you’ll have to use a different search engine than Google, Bing, or Yahoo. Private search engines are also a great way to see that same results that everyone else would see. Sometim...[Read More]