June-2017

Japan is known to be one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. This means that it has one of the highest internet penetration percentages per population in the world. Sadly this comes with some complications in the form of online censorship, online surveillance and high rate of cyber crimes.

Based in Israel, SaferVPN was founded in 2013 to provide internet users with "the fastest and simplest VPN" as advertised on their website at affordable prices. In this review, we will dissect every element of SaferVPN and see if it lives up to its promise.

When it comes to social freedom, Qatar is known to be one of the freest countries in the Gulf; however when it comes to internet freedom the case is different. Similar to most countries in the Gulf, Qatar has very strict online restrictions. These restrictions are mostly due to religious reasons placed by the governing bodies.

Kuwait is considered one of the most technologically advanced countries in the Gulf region when it comes to the internet, however, internet users in Kuwait suffer from an extremely high level of online censorship and online surveillance.

South Korea is known to be one of the most internet-connected nations in the world with over 80 percent of its citizens having access to the internet. It is also known to have extremely high broadband speeds (the usual speed goes up to 100 Mb/s). South Korea is considered a democracy and the government encourages freedom of speech

On Tuesday (June 13th), the Egyptian government has extended its efforts to reinforce its internet sovereignty by blocking VPN providers as well to restrict any possible access to the banned websites since VPN services allow users to bypass any geo-retractions and unblock any restricted web content on the internet.

Tunnelblick is an open source program developed to establish a secure connection between Mac OS or Mac OS X and an OpenVPN server. In this guide, we are going to show you how to set up Tunnelblick on Mac OS X step-by-step with pictures.

Privatix is a VPN service provider that is based in Cyprus. It is one of the very few and rather unknown VPN services that operate mainly as a free VPN service, but also offer premium subscriptions. In this review, we will dissect every feature of Privatix based on testing their free service.

In an attempt to further step up its ability to censor the internet, Russia sets its foot down on web anonymiser services, such as: VPNs by introducing a bill at the state parliament the "Duma" to ban these services should they allow access to any restricted websites in Russia.

We may disagree about putting pineapple on pizza, but we can collectively agree that internet ads are maddening especially when you are trying to watch a video on Youtube or a movie online and get continuously disrupted by unwanted pop-up ads.