Best VPN services 2020: Reviews of top products

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Best VPN services 2020: Reviews of top products

Choosing the right virtual private network (VPN) service is no simple task. A VPN should keep your internet usage private and secure, but not every service handles your data in the same way. Just look at the critiques of notable computer security experts and online pundits to understand the challenge. Even supposed experts in the field can turn out to be frauds

Rest assured, we’ve done the legwork to determine if a VPN service has a history of good or bad behavior. In order to win our seal of approval, the service has to protect online privacy; allow you to keep anonymity; offer a good variety of locations from which to direct your traffic; offer fast, reliable performance; and provide an easy-to-use interface.

Scroll to the bottom of this article to learn more about VPNs and what to look for one choosing one.

Updated 6/9/20: We recently added our review of the lastest version of Malwarebytes Privacy, which has a lot to offer, but could use some work when it comes to system speed. See links to all of our VPN reviews at the bottom of this article.

Best VPN overall

It’s hard to select the best overall VPN. Some services are weaker on privacy, but are significantly easier to use, while others could stand an interface redesign.

Nevertheless, the point of a VPN is to remain private and to have your internet activity kept as private as possible. For that reason, we’re choosing Mullvad as the best overall VPN (see our full review of Mullvad). The company recently released an overhauled desktop client, and the VPN does a great job at privacy. Mullvad doesn’t ask for your email address, and you can mail your payment in cash if you want to. Like many other VPNs, Mullvad has a no-logging policy and doesn’t even collect any identifying metadata from your usage.

Mullvad is also fast, though not the fastest VPN we’ve tested. Last year, we said if Mullvad added a more user-friendly interface it would be nearly unbeatable and that is definitely the state of affairs at this writing.

Runner-up

If you like Mullvad’s focus on privacy, but want a service with more features take a look at OVPN. This service offers solid speeds, and it has excellent methods for protecting user privacy. On top of that, OVPN officially supports Netflix streaming for the U.S., Germany, and Sweden, and annual subscribers get its multi-hop feature for free. It’s expensive, and the country list is smaller than many services, but its approach to privacy is very interesting and hard to beat. (See our full review of OVPN).

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