Is free VPN safe?

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 Should I use a free VPN?

By: Saqib Ali

At this time, everyone around the world tries to protect their privacy on the Internet, its data should be safe and at the same time the restrictions imposed by the government should be easily bypassed.

 The rise of this trend in Pakistan for a year is not a new news. The famous magazine Forbes has reported an increase in the use of VPNs in Pakistan by 400 percent, including the closure of X (Twitter) behind it.

»How do VPNs work?

 To answer this question, let's talk a little about VPN first. If you use the Internet from DSL at home, you create a network with a home device that includes other mobiles and computers. The traffic on this network passes through this device, which means that any other person who is on the network and has a specific software can see everyone's traffic. But if a person is using a VPN on this network, his traffic will be encrypted, but it will be known that this person is using a VPN and it can also be ascertained which VPN is being used. is happening. 

Now let's look at the VPN issue, whenever you install a VPN app and turn it on, it makes you part of the network of a VPN company outside the country. Your traffic goes straight to that external network and from there to your desired website and comes back to you in encrypted form, meaning a secret tunnel (encrypted tunnel) is built between you and that VPN network. Is.

 What does your VPN know about you?

When you don't use a VPN, your ISP knows which web pages you're opening, but when you connect to a VPN, your ISP doesn't know which websites you're viewing. Your ISP only knows that you are going to an IP address that has not been blocked and they may know that you are using a VPN. The VPN network you are connected to knows your actual IP address, also knows what you are looking at. Everything that your ISP can see can now be viewed by a VPN server, but remember that they cannot see the data you provided on this website. So go to websites that use https protocol.

» Which VPN is good?

This depends on the privacy policy of the VPN service. If it is a VPN with a no-log policy, it will not log your data. That is, your IP address, the websites you see, how much time and how much data you invested in a VPN session. If a VPN is logging all this data, it can provide it at the request of the government or institutions. But for this there should be a law in this country that VPN service can log data. Like this law is not in America, but they can log VPN data through National Security Letters. 

One popular free VPN is SuperVPN, which leaked data last year and found that more than 360 million people had their data stolen, meaning it was logging data.

Free VPN?

There are two types of free VPNs, one is completely free and the other is free with limited time and limited features, avoid the first type or at least use what can be trusted. The second type has limited data that is quite good and reliable VPNs, like NordVPN and ProtonVPN, etc. If you have regular usage and can pay the price, always use a paid VPN. 

Now finally I will give you my opinion on which VPN to use. You can use ProtonVPN because its servers are in Switzerland where privacy laws do not restrict any kind of logging. This is a no-log VPN that has not even seen data leaks yet. So VPNs that are in the European Union and follow the no-log policy cannot be used if any data leak report has not been published.

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