Get this top VPN for pennies courtesy of new ‘Pay-What-You-Want’ model

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Premium Atlas VPN service available for at little as $0.99

 

In a bid to support customers unable to afford its full VPN service, Atlas VPN has announced a switch to a ‘Pay-What-You-Want’ model - the first of its kind among VPN providers, according to the firm.

 

The premium Atlas VPN service (previously available for $9.99/mo or $49.99/year) can now be purchased for as little as $0.99 for the first month, but users are encouraged to pay whatever fee they believe reflects the service’s worth. 

 

As before, a free version of Atlas VPN is also available, but offers users access to fewer servers and does not perform as well as the premium offering from a speed perspective.

 

Pay-What-You-Want VPN

The decision to temporarily tweak the fee structure, according to a recent blog post, was motivated by concern that financial turbulence brought about by the pandemic might see some VPN users priced out of the market.

 

“The Atlas VPN team believes that no one should sacrifice secure browsing and risk having their information stolen due to uncertain events in the world,” reads the post.

 

Specifically, the firm cites the steep increase in unemployment rates witnessed in the US, which is at its highest average level (7.9%) since 2013 - and peaked at 14.7% in April.

 

 

In mid-June, meanwhile, search surrounding “pandemic unemployment assistance” reached the maximum value of 100 on Google Trends, which measures the popularity of specific search terms.

 

 

 

Note, however, that the Pay-What-You-Want offer is only available for the first month of service and also expires on August 14. Further, existing customers will only be able to claim the offer within 24 hours of receiving an alert via email.

 

Unfortunately, Atlas VPN wasn’t quite generous enough to implement the policy on a permanent basis.

 

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[Karlston]

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[red666]

How good are they? for mobile n pc.

[caraid]

On 9/21/2020 at 4:45 PM, red666 said:

How good are they? for mobile n pc.

 

IMHO you'd better avoid using Atlas VPN. Nothing is for free. If something is too good to be true, it probably is.

 

You might wish to check That One Privacy Site and look for the table which compares VPNs offered by various vendors.

 

As a general rule:

 

1. VPN vendors are not based in 5 Eyes+14 countries

2. The payment processing offices are not based in 5 Five+14 countries. NordVPN is a good example where its payment processing center is based in the US.

3. VPN vendors accept crypto-currencies such as bitcoin. Better still, if they accept AEC (anonymity enhanced crypto-currencies as defined by US Department of Justice). Monero is one such AEC.

4. VPN vendors do not keep logs. If VPN vendors put a cap on the data that you can consume per month, that's a warning sign that they keep logs.

 

Forget about using VPNs on smartphones. There's no such thing as becoming anonymous or untraceable if one using a smartphone to surf the internet.

 

 

[Erwaszy]

@caraid

Do you believe your source info ? none vpn are good