Wat is jouw overweging om vpn te gebruiken? Het beantwoorden van deze vraag bepaalt namelijk mede je keuze.
If you were to search the web for information about choosing a VPN provider – but please don’t; I’ll explain why in a moment – you would find page after page of search results pointing to VPN review sites. Sites like this, to put it as delicately and generously as possible, are teeming cesspools of greed and lies, representing some of the very worst elements on the internet. They appear to offer objective comparisons and recommendations of VPN services, but more often than not, appearances are extraordinarily deceiving. Nearly every VPN service offers an affiliate program, in which someone who recommends the service can get a commission when a customer subscribes. That’s harmless enough in principle, and indeed I’ve made a few bucks myself from affiliate programs run by Amazon and other online retailers. But because of the bloodthirsty nature of competition among VPN providers, they’re constantly trying to outdo each other with ever-increasing bounties on referred sales. This competition – along with policies that often ignore and sometimes even encourage spamming and other untoward marketing tactics – has led to a cottage industry of sites whose recommendations are based solely on how much they believe they can make from affiliate fees, facts be damned. VPN services that offer lower fees appear lower (if at all) in the rankings, and services that offer more appear at the top, even if they’re dodgy, fly-by-night providers. In fact, I’m ashamed to say that I unwittingly contributed to this mess. A company hired me to write an elaborate, detailed comparison of VPN providers, and as far as I could tell, the person who made the offer and the firm he worked for were reputable. So I spent weeks doing careful research and testing, putting my best work into developing recommendations that would, once and for all, provide objective data on VPN providers. But when my review was finally posted, it appeared on a completely different site, with my byline removed and some of the wording changed in truly bizarre ways. Most significantly, though, my top recommendations were replaced with entirely different providers that I had, in fact, ruled out. Even more egregious, the site left my actual numeric test results in a comparison table but swapped out the names of the real providers for the ones they wanted to push.So, a word to the wise: don’t believe anything you read on VPN review sites, even if it sounds like I might have written it!”
“I’ve done extensive research and testing of VPNs, and in my professional opinion, the best option right now for most people (taking into account privacy, security, performance, and price) is Private Internet Access (PIA). It’s what I’m currently using on all my devices. If, for whatever reason, PIA doesn’t float your boat, here are a few other alternatives that strike me as trustworthy: • Cargo VPN (Mac-only)• Disconnect (which includes other privacy and security features) • Encrypt.me (formerly known as Cloak) • IVPN • NordVPN (which also routes your connections through Tor) • WiTopia”
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