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 ...

Best VPN for 2026: 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 ...

Best VPN for 2026: 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 ...

"What does a VPN do?" That was the question we, the Tom's Guide VPN team, asked you. We work with and write about the best VPNs all day. We consider ourselves experts on the products, but we're ...

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, ...

If you want to stay safe and anonymous online, it's important to understand the difference between a proxy and a VPN.

VPNs aren't fundamentally unsafe, but using the wrong one can be dangerous. Here's how to tell the difference.

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 ...

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.

When talking about the best VPNs, I frequently warn about the dangers of trusting free VPNs without verifying them. Although there are a few free VPNs worth recommending, many other free providers are ...