Things to Know Before Using a VPN Service in 2018
You sign up. You install it. Of course, you turn it on. BOOM. You are secure. You are free. Except, that’s not always the case. You aren’t always free, and you certainly aren’t always secure. There’s a few thing to know before using a VPN otherwise you might be missing out on security. Whether that’s because of your lack of knowledge or b..
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Service upgrade
With start tomorrow(2017-12-26) we'll start upgrading our VPN service. Following will be done:
1. Upgrade OpenVPN to version 2.4
2. Support of AES-256-CBC, AES-128-CBC, AES-256-GCM, and AES-128GCM
3. Add IPv6 to a black hole for preventing IPv6 leaks on Android and MacOS.
4. TCP/443 OpenVPN will support tls-crypt to increase users conne..
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Why Should You Use PrivateVPN - Customer Service & Value
Imagine you have a problem. You need to find out if you buy a certain plan for a VPN service, will your favorite site work with it. Or perhaps you have a different problem. I mean you could try to figure it out, but what if you can’t? What do you do? You contact customer service.
And then you wait. An hour if you are lucky. Perhaps a day or tw..
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Service down again
Past weeks we've been struggling with performance issues due to a bug in our iOS VPN APP. The bug has caused massive internal requests which makes our system unavailable.
We'll keep up updated on the process here!
Right now our developer working on fixing the bug.
09:20 Update has been carried out on each server which resulted in a q..
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Service down
Right now we're experiencing login issues. We're working to solve this.
16:26 Working again. Standby for confirmations it's has been solved permanently.
16:42 Failure on one of the login servers was causing this. We're investigating how we can prevent this from happening again!
*Solved*
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Service down
We're making a service update with cause VPN service unavailable and authentication fails. You will get a message with wrong username or password and it wont help resetting your password.
* 06:50: Something went wrong on the update which cause this to take longer time than expected. Our tech team are working on the issue.
* 10:02..
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Russia's VPN Ban - What Is It and What Will Happen
China has been censoring a significant portion of the internet in the recent years. Russia has now taken a step in that direction with a law passed by the current president of Russia, Vladimir Putin. This law was put into force on the 1st of November and is set to regulate what can be seen or not seen by users in Russia.
As a Swedish compa..
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How to Get a VPN on Android and Why?
A VPN is like what a jailbreak is to an iPhone. It sets you free. It sets you free from any restrictions that you might encounter. But a VPN sets you free when it comes to the internet. But if you were searching for how to get a VPN on Android then you probably already know that. If you don't then here's what you need to know. VPN stands for Virtua..
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VPN for Windows - How and Why to Install
Why would you install something if you don’t need it, right? That’s the thing though. Most people don’t know what VPN stands for, and why you should have such a thing, or rather why you need it.
VPN stands for Virtual Private Network. When you use it, you are connected to a virtual network, and that has many benefits that you need...
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New server added in United Kingdom - London
New server location has been added in London.
London 1: uk-lon1.privatevpn.com
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