Touch VPN

VPN tools are becoming a must-have for all users interested in securing their privacy when surfing the Internet. In addition to keeping your real whereabouts hidden, they have other advantages like unlocking websites which are normally blocked to you, due to your geographical location.

There are standalone desktop applications that, once enabled, redirect all your Internet traffic through their VPN service, and there are also browser extensions, which only apply their effects to the web browser it was installed on.

TouchVPN is a Chrome extension that, unlike other VPN services, is free to use. On the other hand, it's ad-supported, showing some banners during runtime (they aren't annoying, though).

Featuring a dark, cool and intuitive interface, the VPN tool doesn't require account signup and can connect to United Kingdom, United States, Canada, France, the Russian Federation, Germany, and Netherlands.

Just pick a country or go for the best choice made by the tool, then click a button to establish the connection. There is no traffic limit. Besides Windows, it can be installed on macOS, Android and iOS.

It has a built-in ad-blocker that worked smoothly during our tests, along with tracker, cookie and malware blockers. They can be enabled and disabled with one click. You can also create lists of websites to automatically connect to in a secure manner, as well as to exclude from the VPN.

We're just going to cut to the chase since we've noticed a lot of wrongs with this app. Firstly, TouchVPN seems to have its countries mixed up since connecting to UK teleported us to Russia, while connecting to France revealed our IP in the US.

Secondly, the Internet traffic is severely slowed down when comparing the VPN service with other similar software. Downloading torrents is not possible. Also, the VPN shield failed to work for some websites, like Netflix and even language-personalized Google Ads based on current country.

Thirdly, the makers of TouchVPN admit to collecting your information and selling it to third parties. To add to this, because the company is based in US, it's obligated to give your info to the government on request.