Your guide to the best free VPNs 2017. Check out which VPNs you can get for free and decide which is best for you.
A VPN is essential if you’re concerned about privacy and want to make sure that you’re safe when you connect to public WiFi. There are other benefits to using a VPN too. Free VPNs are available, but some have their drawbacks. Read on to find out about best free VPN options and whether they’re right for you.
If you want to find out more about how VPNs work and what you can use them for, you can check out our ultimate round-up of the best VPNs including the best paid-for options.
In attempting to pick the best free VPN service, it soon became clear that all had their drawbacks.
CyberGhost is our pick of the bunch. It can be slow to connect and the connection lasts only three hours before you have to manually re-connect. If you don’ t need a high-speed connection, though, in most other respects it’s a good free VPN which you can even use for watching video.
Although impressive in other respects, you’ re soon going to use up the free data allowance with either Private Tunnel or Tunnel Bear at which point you’ ll be paying for the service, or uninstalling it.
Of the genuinely free services, Spotflux Lite offers only servers in the US, and its speed wasn’t the best.
Hotspot Shield tries to force you into buying a subscription service and by offering only a US-based server (and also by inundating you with advertising) . Its aggressive use of advertising and changing your system software has led some security advisors to classify the program as malware.
In fact, if watching video is your main concern, then check out our guide to watching US Netflix for more tips.
But overall, and this may not the be news you wanted to hear, we’d recommend taking a look at our VPN chart for a cheap paid-for service that’ll treat you much more kindly.
