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Purchase a subscription with PureVPN and get a free trial worth over £8 to gift to a friend

sudshr47 March 28, 2019

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Sharing is caring, as the saying goes. 

That means if you think of yourself as a caring individual then you need to back it up with actions. You need to be sharing your food, sharing closet space, and even sharing your VPN. 

The whole food and closet situation might seem like a step too far, and the prospect of sharing a VPN might be confusing, but it really isn’t with PureVPN. Any user who purchases a subscription with PureVPN can now gift a one-month free trial of the service to a friend. It’s as simple and easy as that.

There are a few points to remember before you get busy sharing, though. Only PureVPN’s subscribed users can send these invitations out, users who have redeemed the gift cannot then send out invites, and invite links are only valid for 30 days. Obviously, the free gifts cannot be sent to existing users, and once an offer is rejected it cannot be resent to the same recipient. All pretty straightforward, don’t you think? Read more…

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Take your pick of ProtonVPN’s 3 annual plans and pay just £3.02 a month for the cheapest

sudshr47 March 27, 2019

There’s a lot to like when it comes to ProtonVPN’s offering, but what immediately strikes you is the choice. There’s a lot of great VPN services out there, but not many can offer you three different annual plans, as well as a free service.
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Get an exclusive saving of over £100 on the TunnelBear 2‑year VPN plan

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

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There are a lot of VPN services out there, and they all work hard to keep your data protected, your activity anonymous, and the internet unrestricted. They don’t all have a massive bear as their mascot though, and that’s an important thing to consider.

TunnelBear is the only VPN service that has a website littered with both cute and angry bears. There’s absolutely no competition when it comes to how many bears each VPN service has. TunnelBear is the clear winner. It also offers unlimited data, tunnelling on any of five computers or mobile devices simultaneously, around the clock private browsing, and blocking of website trackers. And bears — don’t forget the bears. Read more…

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Facebook staff raised concerns about Cambridge Analytica in September 2015, per court filing

sudshr47 March 22, 2019

Further details have emerged about when and how much Facebook knew about data-scraping by the disgraced and now defunct Cambridge Analytica political data firm. Last year a major privacy scandal hit Facebook after it emerged CA had paid GSR, a developer with access to Facebook’s platform, to extract personal data on as many as 87M […]

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The best VPN services to protect your Mac in the UK

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

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There are a number of reasons why you might want to start using a virtual private network or VPN. VPNs offer many benefits, like getting around geographic restrictions for streaming content. 

They can also help protect your privacy and make browsing more secure (though it’s always a good idea to vet your VPN provider’s claims carefully — some do a better a job than others).

But choosing the right VPN for you can be a daunting task. With so many options, you’ll want to think carefully about which features are most important to you and how much you’re willing to pay. Read more…

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6 of the best VPNs for Kodi in the UK, so you can watch all your favourite TV shows from anywhere in 2019

sudshr47 March 20, 2019

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If you’re a movie buff or enjoy nothing more than binge-watching box sets, chances are you’ve heard of Kodi. Kodi is a free, open-source software media player app formerly known as XBMB that acts as a hub for all your music, movies, and TV content, which can be shared across all your devices.

Benefits include being able to turn your gadgets into a part of a digital streaming hub, accessing all sorts of file formats and searching for content in one place, watching geo-blocked content, and adding lots of customisable features via add ons such as iPlayer, which are needed for streaming content. Of course, there are drawbacks too, but most of these can be circumnavigated with a VPN (Virtual Private Network), which encrypts data leaving a device and makes it impossible for others to see what you’re downloading. Read more…

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NordVPN is now available for just £2.29 a month with a money-back guarantee if you aren’t satisfied

sudshr47 March 19, 2019

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A VPN, or Virtual Private Network, is an essential service nowadays — particularly if you want to enjoy unrestricted access to your favourite content from anywhere in the world. 

A VPN can get around content restrictions and censorship to deliver unlimited access to video, music, social media, and more. If that’s important to you, then a VPN should be too. The problem arises when it comes to picking a VPN. There are a lot of options out there and each service has a different set of advantages and disadvantages.

NordVPN is widely regarded as one of the premier VPN options, and that’s probably down to its reputation for being one of the most secure services. It has loads of security tools, such as shared IP addresses and a zero logs policy. It also uses military-grade encryption and DNS leak protection to safeguard users’ IP addresses. It’s also on sale, which is another bonus. Read more…

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Gearbest security lapse exposed millions of shopping orders

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Gearbest, a Chinese online shopping giant, has exposed millions of user profiles and shopping orders, security researchers have found. Security researcher Noam Rotem found an Elasticsearch server leaking millions of records each week, including customer data, orders, and payment records. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allowing anyone to search the data. Gearbest ranks […]

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The other smartphone business

sudshr47 March 9, 2019

With the smartphone operating system market sewn up by Google’s Android platform, which has a close to 90% share globally, leaving Apple’s iOS a slender (but lucrative) premium top-slice, a little company called Jolla and its Linux-based Sailfish OS is a rare sight indeed: A self-styled ‘independent alternative’ that’s still somehow in business. The Finnish […]

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Cookie walls don’t comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA

sudshr47 March 8, 2019

Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their Internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the ‘price’ of entry to the site are not compliant with European data protection law, the Dutch data protection agency clarified yesterday. The DPA said it has received dozens of complaints from Internet users who had had their […]

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Privacy complaints received by tech giants’ favorite EU watchdog up more than 2x since GDPR

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

A report by the lead data watchdog for a large number of tech giants operating in Europe shows a significant increase in privacy complaints and data breach notifications since the region’s updated privacy framework came into force last May. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC)’s annual report, published today, covers the period May 25, aka […]

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LinkedIn forced to ‘pause’ mentioned in the news feature in Europe after complaints about ID mix-ups

sudshr47 February 28, 2019

LinkedIn has been forced to ‘pause’ a feature in Europe in which the platform emails members’ connections when they’ve been ‘mentioned in the news’. The regulatory action follows a number of data protection complaints after LinkedIn’s algorithms incorrect matched members to news articles — triggering a review of the feature and subsequent suspension order. The […]

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