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Court records and reporting show a small set of major VPNs have been legally tested by subpoenas or warrants, and some—most notably Private Internet Access (PIA)—could not produce user browsing logs i...
Several major VPN providers publish either warrant canaries, transparency reports that list law-enforcement or government data requests, or both. Examples documented in the available reporting include...
Onion (.onion) sites are legitimate technical services hosted on the Tor network that provide anonymity and are used by trusted organizations (e.g., news outlets, email providers) as well as criminals...
Using a VPN before Tor (VPN→Tor) will generally hide from your ISP that you are connecting to the Tor network, because the ISP only sees an encrypted connection to the VPN server rather than a Tor ent...
DuckDuckGo’s built‑in VPN has improved into a competent, lightweight option: it passed DNS leak tests in independent hands-on reviews and underwent an infrastructure audit (Securitum) that found no lo...
If you connect to a VPN first and then open Tor (“Tor over VPN” or “Onion over VPN”), the VPN provider can see that you are opening an encrypted connection to the Tor network (specifically the Tor gua...
Several VPN providers have demonstrably complied with government or law‑enforcement requests, producing records that contradicted marketing claims of total anonymity; notable, documented examples incl...
Court records and reporting show multiple VPN providers have had their no-logs claims tested in court and by law enforcement; Private Internet Access (PIA) was subpoenaed in 2016/2017 and could not pr...
Real-world tests of VPNs against subpoenas are limited but instructive: Private Internet Access (PIA) has court records showing it could not produce user logs when subpoenaed, and ExpressVPN reports r...
Court-tested no-logs claims are the strongest real-world evidence a VPN can offer: several providers — notably Private Internet Access, ExpressVPN, OVPN and others — have faced subpoenas, server seizu...
A small group of mainstream VPNs have published independent audits that specifically examine and verify elements of their no‑logs claims — prominent names include NordVPN, ExpressVPN, Proton VPN, Surf...
Independent verification of VPN no‑logs promises is done through commissioned third‑party audits that inspect policies, configurations, staff practices and technical systems to confirm a provider’s cl...
DuckDuckGo’s VPN is a relatively new, modestly sized network: public reporting and DuckDuckGo’s own materials describe a global set of server locations and reviewers report a network measured in tens ...
ProtonVPN emphasizes legal resistance through a combination of privacy-focused architecture, multi-hop "Secure Core" routing, consecutive independent verifications, and what analysts call a favorable ...
Yes — several mainstream VPN providers now advertise “integrated” or turnkey support for Tor-style browsing, but that phrase covers different things: Proton VPN and NordVPN explicitly provide Tor/Onio...
Using a VPN before Tor ("Tor over VPN" / Onion over VPN) is the most common, easy-to-configure way to hide your IP from Tor entry nodes and your ISP, while VPNs that offer Tor-specialized servers (Nor...
Several privacy-focused search engines advertise use of encryption to protect queries in transit; a subset also claim additional client-side or “local” encryption so queries are encrypted before leavi...
State approaches to possession or viewing of illegal content accessed via .onion (Tor) sites vary, but multiple reliable guides say simply visiting onion sites is not automatically illegal in many jur...
’s mobile VPN is positioned as a simple, privacy-first layer bundled into a broader “Privacy Pro” subscription and emphasizes a strict no‑logs claim backed by an audit and easy one‑click use in its ap...
Tor and VPNs are different privacy tools that solve overlapping but distinct problems: Tor offers stronger anonymity by routing traffic through multiple volunteer-run nodes, while VPNs provide system-...