AirVPN is a popular service among privacy-conscious users. The VPN is well known for transparency about its network, reasonable costs, and attention to privacy. It’s not a perfect service, but it’s well worth considering for anyone who wants to ensure a good amount of anonymity.
AirVPN started life in 2010 as a free project developed by privacy-conscious “activists, hacktivists, and hackers,” according to the VPN’s about page (go. macworld.com/abpg). It then became its own entity with a dedicated company around 2012.
Currently AirVPN offers connections in 21 countries, with 240 servers. Anyone who wants to see the status of all of AirVPN’s servers can head to the Status page (go. macworld.com/stpg) on the company’s website. Here you’ll see each server location to the city level, current load, and even the number of users on that server. At the top of the page there are some even more interesting topics such as the top 10 user speeds, the 10 servers with the highest amount of user traffic, and the top 10 user session times. There’s also a pendingissues section showing servers with any issues. You can see, for example, that the Ross server located in Montreal is experimenting with the ChaCha20 cipher.
This is an amazing amount of transparency from a VPN service, and power users will appreciate the data.
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