I'm a senior analyst charged with testing and reviewing VPNs and other security apps for PCMag. I grew up in the heart of Silicon Valley and have been involved with technology since the 1990s.

I review privacy tools like hardware security keys, password managers, private messaging apps, and ad-blocking software. I also report on online scams and offer advice to families and individuals ...

Hide.me Proxy is free and fulfills the simplest of needs in protecting your online privacy, but it's buggy and omits many of the features we've seen in competing services. Proxy services are some of ...

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For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs ...

Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

O'Reilly's has posted instructions for using Google as a free proxy. What's the purpose for Google as a proxy? We often use office/school/university connections ...

Looks good, easy to use, but just didn't unblock any significant sites for us. Try it if you like, but as a last resort. Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we ...

We list the best proxies for YouTube, to make it simple and easy to sidestep censorship, regional bans and ads. YouTube has transformed significantly since its launch in 2005, becoming one of the ...