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Guy Fawkes
Anonymous Cybersecurity Experts
BTGuard is a small VPN and BitTorrent proxy provider that offers a scaled-back but secure service. Although they do offer a full VPN service, their main focus is providing security and anonymity for torrenting.
BTGuard has a small network of 3 servers in 3 countries: Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
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Ben Leeth
Take The Money And Run!
Used BTGuard for a few years with really no issues. However, I ran into an issue about a month ago. Have opened tickets through support and sales with no luck. I even tried calling them to no avail. I even informed my CC company and they can't seem to get in touch with them. I just want to inform people to not use BTGuard and hope this review helps someone in the future. -2 stars!
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Kate Veale
Cybersecurity Researcher
CyberGhost calls itself a "truly complete VPN solution". I put the service to the test and examined CyberGhost and the rumors surrounding it.
I'm based in Australia, so my local internet is both slower and subject to more censorship than countries like the US.
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Jerome
CyberGhost VPN
This program does what its suppose to do and then some, its awesome. Since using this program I haven't received anymore emails from my cable company. The best thing is its affordable and easy to use.
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Ben Leeth
Take The Money And Run!
Used BTGuard for a few years with really no issues. However, I ran into an issue about a month ago. Have opened tickets through support and sales with no luck. I even tried calling them to no avail. I even informed my CC company and they can't seem to get in touch with them. I just want to inform people to not use BTGuard and hope this review helps someone in the future. -2 stars!
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Katie Kasunic
Technology Researcher
HideMyAss! is a popular VPN provider with a large network of 940+ servers in 190+ countries.
Some of this VPN’s biggest strengths are its user-friendly interface, impressive speeds, and ability to access Netflix.
HideMyAss! also offers robust security and a unique Freedom Mode that makes it easy to escape government censorship.
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Hans Bladby
Working perfect
I like this excellent service a lot. It is working absolutely perfect. I have been using it for a couple of weeks, in my PC, in my mobile and also in an Asus router.
It is easy to order and setup, no matter which device.
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Ben Leeth
Take The Money And Run!
Used BTGuard for a few years with really no issues. However, I ran into an issue about a month ago. Have opened tickets through support and sales with no luck. I even tried calling them to no avail. I even informed my CC company and they can't seem to get in touch with them. I just want to inform people to not use BTGuard and hope this review helps someone in the future. -2 stars!
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Guy Fawkes
Anonymous Cybersecurity Experts
BTGuard is a small VPN and BitTorrent proxy provider that offers a scaled-back but secure service. Although they do offer a full VPN service, their main focus is providing security and anonymity for torrenting.
BTGuard has a small network of 3 servers in 3 countries: Canada, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
Read all
Kate Veale
Cybersecurity Researcher
CyberGhost calls itself a "truly complete VPN solution". I put the service to the test and examined CyberGhost and the rumors surrounding it.
I'm based in Australia, so my local internet is both slower and subject to more censorship than countries like the US.
Read all
Katie Kasunic
Technology Researcher
HideMyAss! is a popular VPN provider with a large network of 940+ servers in 190+ countries.
Some of this VPN’s biggest strengths are its user-friendly interface, impressive speeds, and ability to access Netflix.
HideMyAss! also offers robust security and a unique Freedom Mode that makes it easy to escape government censorship.
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Jerome
CyberGhost VPN
This program does what its suppose to do and then some, its awesome. Since using this program I haven't received anymore emails from my cable company. The best thing is its affordable and easy to use.
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Hans Bladby
Working perfect
I like this excellent service a lot. It is working absolutely perfect. I have been using it for a couple of weeks, in my PC, in my mobile and also in an Asus router.
It is easy to order and setup, no matter which device.
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Ben Leeth
Take The Money And Run!
Used BTGuard for a few years with really no issues. However, I ran into an issue about a month ago. Have opened tickets through support and sales with no luck. I even tried calling them to no avail. I even informed my CC company and they can't seem to get in touch with them. I just want to inform people to not use BTGuard and hope this review helps someone in the future. -2 stars!
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Anonymously
Disconnects Often. Killswitch Fails, which defeats the entire purpose...
I bought (renewed) an 18 month subscription to CG recently. I had been using it for a year prior and had some issues, but on renewal, I was required to install an update (v7 for Windows, I think)
Disconnects several times each day, and regular crashes. In many cases when the app crashed, the killswitch was not activated, leaving my online activity exposed.
I actually wrote a script to attempt to compensate for this that would ping test 8.8.8.8 for connectivity and reboot the PC if not connected. This was an OK workaround. it caught disconnects normally 4-6 times daily and rebooted, thereby restoring the connection. This process failed though, when the killswitch failed to activate, exposing my connection. This happened 5 times during the 2 months I used it. I received DMCA alerts from my ISP each time, and was told that my service will be cancelled if it happened again.
I immediately switched to NordVPN. Connection speed is exponentially faster, and the connection has not disconnected once in over a week since I installed.
I think that the most direct cause for the speed increase (and probably less frequent disconnects) with NordVPN is that CyberGhost has no (or limited, I wasn't able to find any) servers in USA that allow P2P. I wasn't aware of this when I signed up for their service, and was always required to connect to a VPN server in a different country with a huge performance hit. With NordVPN, I get many blazing fast, reliable server options that support P2P in a city nearby.
I hope this is helpful to some. I wish I had seen this review before I signed up for CyberGhost's service.
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Heisenberg
Definitely not recommended
HMA has helped several times in the past to identify individual users for the judiciary through corresponding logs. HMA has completely failed.
A VPN provider that is able to identify individual users specifically in their usage behavior is extremely bad.
Ben Leeth