EXPRESSVPN

A great service and feature set, but it’s expensive and its laundry list of controversies keeps growing

SCORE BEST DEAL 1yr $100 (£79) from expressvpn.com RENEWAL PRICE 1yr $100 (£79) ExpressVPN always performs astonishingly well in tests, but when choosing a VPN there are other factors you may wish to consider. And the challenge for ExpressVPN is that it has recently been dogged by dubious corporate decisions and, earlier this year, the revelation of a long-standing bug that exposed the split-tunnelled DNS requests of some Windows users. One controversy came from the company’s support of now-departed board member Daniel Gericke, found to have worked as a mercenary spy exposing journalists and activists who criticised the government of the UAE. This all happened ahead of a conveniently timed acquisition by Kape Technologies, so it’s up to you to decide if the corporate changes make any difference to your decision. The bad press continued…

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