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VPN Services That Take Anonymity Seriously

posted by paulej72 on Monday March 17 2014, @12:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can't-find-me dept.

Angry Jesus writes:

"The TorrentFreak news site just released their latest annual survey of VPN providers' privacy policies. The results are very encouraging: it seems that the idea that online privacy is important is becoming more widespread and the price is quite affordable, just a few dollars a month.

For nearly a year I've been using one of the VPN services on their list. Not so much for the anonymous bit-torrent capability, but rather to frustrate Big Data's attempts to track me. I typically use domestic USA end-points and switch between 10-20 of them during the course of the day. That is coupled with various privacy extensions to Firefox (blocking cookies, JavaScript, Flash, ads, cross-site includes, and randomizing my user-agent). So far, I've been quite happy with how it has worked out. Even if I can't protect myself from the NSA, I can protect myself from just about everyone else."

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Monday March 17 2014, @01:15AM

    by takyon (881) <{takyon} {at} {soylentnews.org}> on Monday March 17 2014, @01:15AM (#17336) Journal

    There are a total of 27 providers on the list, "several" of which are TorrentFreak sponsors.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Fluffeh on Monday March 17 2014, @02:17AM

    by Fluffeh (954) Subscriber Badge on Monday March 17 2014, @02:17AM (#17348) Journal

    They did also publish a dirty list the other day (can't find the link from where I am at the moment though) but they do seem to get cranky when VPNs hand out information that they claim not to hand out. The last set of reviews similar to this that I saw also actually had each site sponsor listed clearly as such. They seem to be quite transparent about this sort of thing.

    I personally don't see this as some sort of breach of trust on their part. They don't hide it and I think they give fair reviews to the various services.