To help you pick the best VPN, we asked dozens of VPNs to detail their logging practices, how they handle torrent users, and more.

There’s way too much hype over VPN Providers, but do not forget, you are routing all your traffic through their servers

As a general advice, if a VPN provider keeps logs of your activity, does not allow you to pay with crypto, and generally spends way too much on youtube ads is probably not an ideal choice.

Do not follow any advice/recommendation blindly, do your own research on which one offers the best service for your own needs.

TorrentFreak Q&A with VPN Providers

  • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
    28·
    2 years ago

    They don’t. I suspect you haven’t actually read one of these articles in detail.because it is in no way a recommendation from TorrentFreak. It literally opens with this:

    The VPN review business is also flourishing as well. Just do a random search for “best VPN service” or “VPN review” and you’ll see dozens of sites filled with recommendations and preferred picks. Some VPN companies, such as Kape, even own review sites.

    At TF we don’t want to make any recommendations. When it comes to privacy and anonymity, an outsider can’t offer any guarantees. Vulnerabilities are always lurking around the corner and even with the most secure VPN, you still have to trust the VPN company with your data.

    Instead, we aim to provide an unranked overview of VPN providers, asking them questions we believe are important. Many of these questions relate to privacy and security, and the various companies answer them in their own words.

    We hope that this helps users to make an informed choice. However, we stress that users themselves should always make sure that their VPN setup is secure, working correctly, and not leaking. Also, we advise people to properly research the company behind the VPN service.

    NordVPN appears first because it is a sponsor, as is clearly stated:

    *Note: Private Internet access, ExpressVPN and NordVPN are TorrentFreak sponsors. We reserve the first three spots for them as a courtesy. This article also includes a few affiliate links which help us pay the bills. We never sell positions in our review article or charge providers for a listing.

    The same questions are put to every VPN provider on the list. It is unranked - whether they first or last is completely irrelevant.

    • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      04·
      2 years ago

      But they are presenting the answers equal to others. That’s the point. You can’t make an article and ask some scientist and a madman questions and then present the answers next to each other, pretending the madman has equally valid output. They should put disclaimers on each provider with the different problems that occur with the certain provider. Like they were caught logging, they were breached, they are under bad jurisdictions etc

      • Ilandar@aussie.zoneEnglish
        41·
        2 years ago

        Like they were caught logging, they were breached, they are under bad jurisdictions etc

        TorrentFreak already puts these questions directly to the providers. Again, do everyone a favour and actually read this article you are so intent on criticising. You seem to have absolutely zero understanding of it. It’s almost as if you skipped directly to NordVPN, saw it was listed first and made up this entire fake story in your head.

        • LoudWaterHombre@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          I did and I know they put the questions to the provider, but what is it worth if they have been caught lying but still answer “no we don’t log” I believe they should highlight that fact.