When venturing out into the wilds of the modern web, many people now make use of a VPN, or a Virtual Private Network. These software packages have been around for decades as ways of securely ...

Planning to stay connected during your next voyage? Before you settle in to your cabin and fire up your VPN, let’s go through ...

Best VPN for 2025: Our Top 10 Favorite VPN Services Do I Need a VPN? 8 Reasons Why It Might Be Helpful VPNs are fantastic. They’re your ultimate privacy tools that can also circumvent geo-blocks and ...

Best VPN for 2025: Our Top 10 Favorite VPN Services Do VPNs Hide My Browsing History? What’s Hidden and What’s Wide Open You turn on your VPN and assume the coast is clear. After all, there should be ...

Interest in digital tools that can hide or alter an internet user's location has exploded in the days since the UK introduced age verification for online adult content. Virtual private networks (VPNs) ...

Free public Wi-Fi is everywhere; there are over 550 worldwide hotspots, by some estimates. It's rare to find a coffee shop or mall without one, and some countries (such as Singapore) make it freely ...

VPNs are a hot topic among ZDNET readers. Many of you use VPNs to protect your communications, protect your privacy or location, or to location-shift your apparent ...

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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 tech company's text-heavy mural in London's trendy Shoreditch area, known for its street art, used the word "VPN" 24 times without actually explaining what a virtual private network is or does.