PureVPN review

Today we will be reviewing a company owned by GZ Systems Ltd. and founded in 2007, PureVPN. The VPN provider is based in Hong Kong and has the most massive server network (96 VPN servers) in 78 countries around the world. The first reason to trust this VPN service is its zero-logging policy, which means that all your online activities are not recorded, tracked, or stored on the servers of the VPN provider. PureVPN has a large selection of VPN protocols, which all without exception work on each server, among the protocols IKEv2, SSTP, L2TP, OpenVPN (UDP/TCP), PPTP, and Stealth.

You can connect up to 10 devices to PureVPN at the same time, which is high among other VPN services. PureVPN provides AES 256 encryption, the state-of-the-art solution today, to ensure that your data is transferred securely.

Fans of streaming platforms like Netflix. Disney Hotstar, BBC iPlayer, and others let me make you happy because PureVPN perfectly copes with geo-blocking and allows you access to the content.

But of course, there are some disadvantages of this VPN provider, such as speed, variety of additional features, and so on, which we will consider in detail in this review.

General highlights

As previously mentioned, PureVPN uses state-of-the-art AES 256 encryption to ensure your privacy and protect you from third parties who want to gain information about your online activities. Public WiFi networks become easy bait for cybercriminals to attack, but PureVPN's traffic, which is routed through an encrypted tunnel, keeps you safe from such attacks, DNS and WerRTC leak tests have also been conducted and the ISP's WAP test was successful.

PureVPN uses a large variety of protocols, including SSTP, OpenVPN (UDP/TCP), IKEv2, PPTP, L2TP, and Stealth. Recently, the Wireguard protocol has become very popular, which unfortunately will not be available in PureVPN applications. But time-tested Open VPN is still considered as one of the safest and fastest protocols, other presented protocols also have reliable encryption algorithms, but I want to warn you against using PPTP as this is an outdated protocol, which was hacked by NSA a long time ago and it can not guarantee you a safe transmission of your data. Note that all protocols work on all servers without exception, so you do not have to choose separate protocols on individual servers, not all VPN providers offer this possibility.

Jurisdiction PureVPN is quite favorable, the company is registered in Hong Kong, which is considered an autonomy of China, but in this territory does not operate inherently in the strict censorship of China. The jurisdiction of Hong Kong involves virtually unlimited access to the Internet, except for porn sites and pirate sites, which is quite logical, the country is allowed VPN, but still there are several articles, which prove that Hong Kong massively monitors its citizens. If the government or other agencies will have a warrant for the submission of information about a VPN user, here, fortunately for us PureVPN can not help, because the service does not store information about the history of visited sites, IP when you connect, all your activities on the Internet becomes anonymous and not confidential thanks to a no-log policy.

PureVPN has at its disposal a huge server network consisting of 96 VPN servers in 78 countries, which is a great advantage of the service because if the service provides a large number of servers, it minimizes the load on them. There are both physical and virtual servers.

List of countries:

Brunei Darussalam, Bermuda, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Belgium, Bangladesh, Barbados, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Argentina, Angola, Albania, Afghanistan, UAE, South Africa, Vietnam, Cayman Islands, USA, Taiwan, Turkey, Thailand, Slovakia, Singapore, Sweden, Serbia, Romania, Portugal, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Poland, Philippines, Panama, Oman, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Malaysia, Mexico, Macao, Monaco, Latvia, Luxemburg, Lithuania, Liechtenstein, Virgin Iceland, South Korea, Kenya, Japan, Italy, Iceland, India, Ireland, Indonesia, Hungary, Greece, Georgia, Great Britain, France, Finland, Spain, Egypt, Estonia, Germany, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Chile, Switzerland, Canada, Brazil, Bolivia.

Support service I liked the service, there is a live online chat to solve instant problems, support staff are working 24/7, you can also ask for help through the mail, as a rule, the waiting time of the answer is about 6 hours. On the site, you can find brief guides on how to set up routers, Kodi, Android TV, Fire TV and other applications. There is also a section with frequently asked questions and a blog where you can find articles that interest you. All this shows that the service cares about its users and attentively listens to them.

Pros

✓ No log policy
✓ Strong protection with ultra-modern encryption
✓ Dedicated P2P servers
✓ 7-day trial
✓ Large server network

Cons

✘ The dedicated IP address for certain countries only
✘ No ad blocker or malicious trackers
✘ Payment in cryptocurrency is non-refundable