![]() * The Fastest VPNs in 2023 What’s the best VPN for Chromebooks? Hotspot Shield Basic fully encrypts your web connections to keep your browsing activity secure when you’re using the Google Chrome browser.įor more features – such as 115+ virtual locations, unlimited data, fastest VPN*, 24/7 tech support, and much more - we offer Hotspot Shield Premium, the fastest VPN* for streaming and secure internet access. Hotspot Shield is the best free VPN for Chrome. We don’t record your VPN browsing activity in any way that can be associated to youįrequently Asked Questions What is the best free VPN for Chrome? We’re so confident you’ll love everything about Hotspot Shield, you can try it completely risk-free for 45-daysĬreate an account to link up to 5 devices, including your phone, tablet, and TV We’ll be with you in seconds, not minutes or hours. We’re here to help Premium members with any questions or issues. Unlimited bandwidth means you never have to stop. Get Premium today and stream as much as you want. Hotspot Shield’s proprietary Hydra VPN protocol is verified by experts as the fastest, most secure on the market We offer 3,200 servers in 80+ countries, including 35+ cities around the world None of that proves anything malicious is happening, but it suggests to us that this isn't a developer who in any way deserves your trust.Privacy and security that also blocks 57 million malware and phishing sites a day There's no attempt to explain this to users, no website with a detailed back story, and no obvious reason why this service is being given away for free. Put all this together and the upshot is that we seem to have someone in China setting up a UK company, apparently doing nothing with it, but using its name and UK origin to push VPN products under multiple brands, sometimes with very implausible claims. HideMe claims to have a website at This didn't host a website during testing, but checking showed that in 2017 HideMe was saying it had 'invented a new VPN protocol that works great in regions where traditional VPNs are blocked.' Mysteriously, the firm doesn’t seem to explain what this is, or why it doesn’t mention it in the app store pages, or why it isn’t boasting about this breakthrough on security news websites. ![]() Searching for references to revealed that the developer is also behind the Chrome extension FreeVPN Proxy by HideMe (not to be confused with (opens in new tab), an entirely legitimate commercial VPN provider). But it's also possible that the company is being used to make it appear that the VPN has a UK business behind it, rather than being the product of an individual from China. Perhaps the developer wanted to do something with the company and just never got around to it. Browsing Companies House revealed that Tigervpns Ltd is registered as a UK company, but the director and shareholder is named as Jiazeng Wang (opens in new tab) from Shanghai, China, and as we write Companies House lists it as 'non-trading' and apparently based at an accommodation address. Having a developer that is part of a UK limited company sounds reassuring, but we wanted to find out more. But there's no mention of anything else the company does, and the two company domains – and – don't host any website. A caption refers to Tigervpns (UK), and a Tigervpns Ltd Facebook page refers to FreeVPN Proxy as a new service it has built. Although the website was the copyright and email message points to Tigervpns (not TigerVPN (opens in new tab), an entirely legitimate commercial VPN service from Slovakia). The confusion continued when we tried to find out who was behind the site. Is this the developer behind FreeVPN Proxy, or is FreeVPN Proxy linking to these apps because they're open source? The site doesn't say. The site contained a single web page listing news stories sourced from RFI (Radio France Internationale), various Google ads and a Get Free VPN button - nothing about the service, at all.Ĭlicking Get Free VPN opened the same GitHub page we'd encountered earlier, with basic descriptions and download links for Windows and Mac clients. ![]() Our next step was to try to find out more about the developer by heading off to its website, (opens in new tab). Sounds good, but as these are just the words of a GitHub user called 'JJQQKK', and don't even reference FreeVPN Proxy, we weren't satisfied. A Privacy Policy (hosted on GitHub, oddly) claims the service only records your IP address, inbound and outbound data totals during a session, and deletes these when the session ends. The extension's Chrome store page (opens in new tab) claims that 'no log is saved from any users'. Could this be logging your online activities? This doesn't guarantee your anonymity, of course, because your traffic is being redirected through a server chosen by the developer. ![]()
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