Dare the VPN: CyberGhost offers a great promo for 2 €!

VPNs are not services with miraculous properties like the highly paid YouTubers want to sell you for talking about things they don’t understand. Because the purpose of a VPN is to encrypt your traffic on the Internet so that no one can know what is going through your pipes: neither the police, nor your Internet service provider, nor a hacker, nor Kim Jong-un… Nobody . Normally VPNs are… free. Yep, it is quite easy to make a VPN at home with a small server (like a Raspberry Pi at 40 € with an OpenVPN), but that requires some knowledge, a little maintenance: in short, a little involvement.

Commercial VPNs … is it that bad?

Understanding the desire of Internet users to hide their activity and preserve their privacy, services of a new kind have emerged: SudVPN, ViteVPN, SurfCrevette, etc. To stand out, they had to add a little extra to the “free” encryption: the possibility of changing the IP of the user-client and of domiciling him in the country of his choice. The number of available countries and servers has even become a commercial argument when it is very rare to need an IP domiciled in Sri Lanka, Laos or Greenland. But what’s the point in the end, since with a server in France, faster and encrypted, you pass through the mesh of HADOPI’s flounder and you run no risk of your personal data leaking?

A foreign IP on the map!

There are 3 scenarios:

• You want to access a site that is no longer available on the French Web. Yes, a site like the Yggtorrent Torrent tracker is no longer available for consultation with a French IP (follow their Twitter account to find out their updated domain name), but that’s not all since since the LOPSI law, it It is possible to suspend a French Internet URL without even the decision of a judge: an aberration bordering on despotism.
• Do you subscribe to Canal +, RMC Sport, OCS or beIN Sports and find yourself on vacation in Algeria, Vietnam or Canada? With your foreign IP it is impossible to watch the programs for which you are paying. You will be blocked… Even with an app to watch TV like SFR TV. Joséphine Ange Gardien, despite her powers, is not welcome in Brazil, Cameroon or Australia. With a French IP, the case is in the bag.
• Conversely, you are in France, but you want to see programs to which you do not have access? Japanese Netflix or American Disney + are “classics” when it comes to selling you a VPN, but there’s also free content from channels around the world. Formula 1 is on Canal + and you don’t want to pay? Why not take an Austrian IP and watch the race on the free Austrian channel ServusTV? Are you more of a footballer? Did you know that unlike France, many countries broadcast the Champions League for free and live on local channels? For the next PSG – Dynamo Kiev or Olympique Lyonnais – Slavia Prague, it is possible to take a Ukrainian or Czech IP to watch the match… with commentaries in local languages, but is it really important?

Interesting features

In addition to their exotic IPs, VPNs add small features that when added to each other provide a more user-friendly service. Already the interface is very simple. Whether on a mobile (Android / iOS) or a computer (Windows / Mac / Linux), just install the program or the app and click a button to encrypt its traffic. Then there are many safeguards: white list to ensure that traffic via the VPN is bypassed (some apps, particularly banking, do not like VPNs), the Kill Switch which allows you to cut off access to a server if it becomes vulnerable (maintenances, it happens), the possibility of being notified if one of your passwords is corrupted, etc.

CyberGhost: it does like the others … But cheaper!

Let’s be honest here: all VPNs are more or less the same. So why take one service more expensive than another? In this category of commercial VPNs with many servers in many countries, the cheapest is CyberGhost. Like all VPNs of this type, it shows insane discounts all year round. These are not deceptive practices: the -83% rebate is calculated on the price you will have to pay by choosing a monthly plan at € 11.99. In the case of CyberGhost, a 3-year subscription costs 78 €, but you also have 3 free months: that’s 2 € / month over 39 months. Too long ? You have 45 days to reconsider your decision, which still takes a long time to know if you like the service or not.

On mobile, CyberGhost is just as easy to learn. It is also possible to encrypt all internet traffic in the house by installing the VPN on your router. If you want to do it on a case-by-case basis, CyberGhost can protect 7 devices at the same time.