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• Do they keep access logs? 
  • Using a VPN to protect your privacy is pointless if everything you do is stored into neat logs. The VPN providers we trust do not keep any logs.
• Do they use a modern and secure tunneling protocol? 
  • Avoid VPN services that only support PPTP.
• Where are they based? 
  • Are they based where the government of your place of residence has jurisdiction? 
  • Are they based in the "Five Eyes"? (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States of America). These countries are bound by the multilateral UKUSA Agreement, a treaty for joint cooperation in signals intelligence.
    • Are the they based in the "Nine Eyes", consisting of the Five Eyes plus Denmark, France, the Netherlands, and Norway?
    • Are they based in the "Fourteen Eyes", consisting of the same countries as the Nine Eyes plus Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Sweden?
• Other considerations:
  • How many servers do they have? Do they have servers physically near you? The closer you are physically to the server, the faster your connections will be.
  • Do they have bandwidth limits? Do they throttle speeds for any reason?
  • How many concurrent connections can you make? Can you secure all your devices?

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