{"id":100,"date":"2019-09-23T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/blog\/got-vpn\/"},"modified":"2022-07-12T09:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T13:18:04","slug":"got-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/got-vpn\/","title":{"rendered":"Got VPN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A virtual private network (VPN) is a great tool for protecting your privacy and security on the Internet, especially when you&#8217;re using a public network or Wi-Fi hotspot. However, not all VPNs are trustworthy, and some are nothing more than thinly disguised data collectors.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some sites that help you weed out the good guys from the bad guys:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thatoneprivacysite.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That One Privacy Site<\/a> &#8211; highly recommended<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thebestvpn.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheBestVPN<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vpnpro.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VPNpro<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are many other sites that &#8220;rate&#8221; VPNs, but some are little more than paid advertisers for the ones they recommend. The first site listed above provides the various criteria that go into a competent analysis of a VPN. If you read a review that doesn&#8217;t get into some level of detail about those types of things, then you should discount the value of that review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A virtual private network (VPN) is a great tool for protecting your privacy and security on the Internet, especially when you&#8217;re using a public network or Wi-Fi hotspot. However, not all VPNs are trustworthy, and some are nothing more than thinly disguised data collectors. Here are some sites that help you weed out the good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomolin.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}