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Comparative test of Internet Anonymizers [updated 28/10/2011]

Reports [1] on „Hidemyass.com“ identifying users to law enforcement authorities have raised awareness of the fact that not all VPN services are anonymizers [2], effectively protecting your privacy on the web. Your privacy is reasonably safe only with VPN providers that do not log your IP address or other personally identifiable information when signing up for, paying for and using their service. Even then, providers can generally be required to keep logs needed for a specific criminal investigation, in order to identify criminal suspects (data preservation). However your privacy is reasonably well protected if your online activity is traceable only while such an investigation is taking place.

We have been publishing and updating a comparative test of VPN services [3] in German since 2009 which points out which VPN services log their users‘ IP addresses and which do not. Due to the current interest I am providing an English version of the short summary of the results (last updated: 02/06/2011). The test relies on information given by the providers.

Based in
No logging of any traffic data (not even partially or temporarily) No e-mail port blocking
Price
1. Jondonym [4] International
from 6,15 €/GB
2. Tor [5] International
0
3. Cyberghost VPN [6] Romania
from 0 €
4. Perfect Privacy [7] International
()
from 10 €/month
5. Relakks [8] Sweden
from 5 €/month
6. Internet Anonym VPN [9] Germany
from 12 €/month and 25 GB
7. Ivacy [10] Switzerland
from 8,33 €/month or 0,50 €/GB
8. Linkideo [11] Jersey
from 2 €/month
9. Xerobank/ShadowVPN [12] Panama
from 10 US$/month and 10 GB
10. Swiss VPN [13] Switzerland
5 US$/month
11. Safersurf [14] Germany
5,90 €/month
12. Witopia [15] USA
3,33 US$/month
13. Trackbuster [16] -
-
-
-
14. Your Freedom [17] Germany
from 0 €
15. Surfonym Premium [18] Austria
10 €/month
16. BananaVPN [19] Cyprus
from 15 US$/month
17. VPN Out [20] USA
from 8,33 US$/month and 83 GB
18. Hideway [21] Austria
from 6 €/month incl. 10 GB
19. Hotspot VPN [22] USA
from 8 US$/month
20. Mad VPN [23] China
from 9 US$/month and 5 GB
21. VPN Accounts [24] Cyprus
from 15 US$/month
22. Tiggers Welt [25] Germany
from 3 €/month incl. 1 GB
23. Public VPN [26] USA
from 5,83 US$/month
24. PRQ Tunnel [27] Sweden
()
from 8 €/month
25. Torrent Freedom/ Crypto Cloud [28] Canada
from 11,58 US$/month
26. Trilightzone VPN [29] International
from 6,67 €/month
27. Anonine [30] Sweden
from 3,25 €/month
28. AlwaysVPN [31] USA
from 5,72 €/month
29. Roadwarrior [32] USA
from 15,42 €/month and 15 GB
30. AceVPN [33] USA
from 3,10 €/month
31. 12VPN [34] China
from 1,99 €/month
32. VPN Privacy [35] Canada
from 8,27 €/month
33. Strong VPN [36] USA
from 4,33 €/month
34. HideIP VPN [37] Romania
from 6,15 US$/month
35. Solvpn [38] USA
from 16,67 US$/month
36. Your Private VPN [39] International
from 5 €/month
37. TuVPN [40] Singapore
from 8 €/month
38. VPNUK [41] Netherlands
from 6,50 GBP/month
39. Cinipac [42] Panama
from 10 €/month
40. Ideal VPN [43] France
4,90 €/month
41. VPN Master [44] Netherlands
from 3,95 €/month
42. Key VPN [45] Germany
unknown

Full information is provided in the German article [46].

Note that the test was initially conducted in 2009. Some information may be outdated.

Update of 28/10/2011:

See also torrentfreak.com: Which VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? [47] (07.10.2011) covering BTguard, ItsHidden, TorrentPrivacy, Ipredator, Faceless, AirVPN, VPNReactor, BlackVPN, PrivatVPN, Privacy.io, Mullvad, Cryptocloud, VyprVPN, SwissVPN, StrongVPN, Blacklogic.com, PureVPN.com, VPNTunnel.se, Bolehvpn.net and Ivacy.com.