Prompted by the latest revelations about common VPNs being owned by Chinese companies that may share data with their government, our latest Do You Use It? poll explored how TidBITS readers use VPNs.

A VPN is a valuable tool for protecting your privacy, but there are times when turning it off might be the better choice. Its encrypted connection can sometimes disrupt important activities like ...

I leave my VPN connected most of the time and only turn it off when I have a specific reason not to. With your VPN on, you’ll ...

Over the past few years, Virtual Private Networks (VPN) have become popular to bypass censorship, skirt around surveillance, and break past local restrictions. Names like ProtonVPN, NordVPN, ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

“This video is not available in your location”. It’s a message familiar to many people trying to watch global content online. But beneath this frustration lies a deeper question – how do we navigate ...

Kris has been writing about technology for nearly a decade and got their start covering video games at RPG Site before branching out to PC, Android, and general tech coverage. After joining How-To ...

If you use a VPN, are you using it all the time and for everything on your desktop or laptop? You probably assume that more is always better, right? It is like ...

Virtual private networks, commonly known as VPNs, have become a popular service in the modern digital age. With users more worried than ever before about unwanted third parties surveilling and ...