Online Privacy Resources, Guides & Research

A paid VPN keeps you secure and private over the internet. It ensures your connection and online traffic are not vulnerable to eavesdroppers and even snoopers. This makes it harder for interested parties to know what you are up to on the internet. A VPN also helps you unblock various content by changing your geo-location and masking your IP address. But is paying for a VPN really worth it?

Cybersecurity researcher Sick.Codes has discovered a major vulnerability on the Tor browser, allowing a correlation attack that can compromise the privacy of visits to v2 onion addresses.

YouTube TV is a popular US streaming service. If you access it outside of the US, you will get an error, “YouTube TV is only available in the US.” Nonetheless, you can bypass this error and access YouTube TV outside of the US using a VPN.

Browser fingerprinting generates a unique fingerprint of users enabling websites to track them among millions of others. The most dangerous part of fingerprinting is websites’ ability to collect extensive information to generate a unique browser fingerprint for every user. Javascript and Flash and Canvas, WebGL, Media devices, and Audio fingerprinting are the major techniques used for this purpose.

Firestick is an excellent streaming device that works with most services. But to unlock its full potential, you need to use a VPN. Unfortunately, Avast VPN doesn’t have a native VPN app for Firestick. To use Avast VPN on Firestick, you need a workaround, which has proven to be a tedious process. For instance, you need to have an Android phone with Google Play Store. This is because you cannot download the installation file (APK) from the official Avast website.

Online privacy company ExpressVPN claims that it knew “key facts” of their executive, Daniel Gericke’s involvement in Project Raven. Recently, three former US intelligence and military personnel, Marc Baier, Ryan Adams, and Daniel Gericke were fined $1.6 million by the DPA, on hacking-related charges.

Netflix is a top popular online streaming service with a vast catalog of unlimited movies, TV shows, and so much more. You can even download content for offline watching. The huge library makes Netflix the most sought after streaming service. Unfortunately, due to bans, not all VPNs can unblock and let you stream content from Netflix. This has been the case with Avast VPN.

A Venezuela VPN is one of the best way to reclaim your internet freedom. It can bypass various restrictions and blocked websites. It will you to gain access to social media, avoid self-censorship anonymously, and access other platforms. You also get to change your IP address.

ProtonMail, widely acknowledged as one of the most secure email services, just walked back on it’s no-logs policy after a police investigation. The company logged the user’s account and collected his IP address, which it then handled to the French authorities, who subsequently arrested a user in France.

ExpressVPN was just bought by Kape Technologies for $936 million, a decision that both of the co-founders of the renowned VPN service were adamant about. This marks the biggest VPN takeover deal in history.

Session App is an open-source private messaging application that focuses mainly on user privacy and communication encryption. The platform is based on decentralized servers connected in a global routing network and does not require users for any personal information when creating an account.

Deepfakes are fake media content created by manipulating existing media using deep learning techniques. The main technologies used in creating Deepfakes are autoencoders and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Face-swapping, Face re-enactment, Audio Deepfakes, Lip-syncing, and Puppet-master are among the popular types of Deepfakes circulating on the internet.

If you’re a lover of sports, then you certainly will be wanting access to ESPN. Unfortunately, ESPN USA is unavailable outside of the USA. This comes as a huge disappointment to the fans of different sports e.g American Football, the NBA, and Baseball. Nevertheless, every problem, no matter how insurmountable it seems, has a clear solution for those in the know.

BeIN Sports is geo-restricted. That means they are only accessible to people living in a specific country or region. Normally, this would mean people outside the region won’t be able to access the service, but there are methods to overcome this.

FuboTV is a streaming television service that broadcasts live sports, such as the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS, CPL, international soccer, and news, network television programs, and movies in English, French, and Spanish. The sad news is, FuboTV is not available outside the US as it is geo-restricted. But all hope is not lost as there is a solution to this problem.

In the past, there have been rumors of Vudu expanding internationally, but nothing has happened. Current availability only extends to North America and Mexico.
That being said, it’s still possible to unblock Vudu from outside the US using tools such as VPNs.

“Sorry, this video is not available in your country” is the message you’ll receive whenever you try to use ProSieben without a VPN outside Germany. The reason is that ProSieben is geo-blocked, i.e. it is only accessible to people living in German-speaking countries.

Sling TV is one of the most popular TV networks in the USA, boasting a plethora of entertaining channels and programs. It has well over 200 channels to choose from, channels such as CNN, Food Network, and ESPN. Unfortunately, only the residents of the USA have direct access to these services, with a geo-block in place for those living outside of.

Zattoo TV is a very popular streaming service with lots of movies and TV shows, but it’s restricted to only a handful of European countries like Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, and the United Kingdom. If you attempt to access it outside of the above-mentioned countries, you will be met with an error message. However, it is possible to circumvent Zattoo geo-restrictions using a couple of methods like VPN, smart DNS, proxy servers, and more.

Sky Go is one of the most popular on-demand TV services in Europe, but sadly, it is not available for streaming in the USA. If you attempt to access it in the United States, you aren’t likely to enjoy any success.

While Showtime is a very delightful streaming service, all of its content is only available for streaming in the USA alone. Unfortunately, the service is blocked and unavailable outside of the United States. With a VPN, however, it is possible to access Showtime’s content even if you reside outside the USA. How you go about this will form the crux of the discussion in this article.

DAZN is a streaming service that is popular in more than 200 countries around the world. However, the range of competitions and sporting events available for streaming in each country varies, thanks to geo-restrictions. For instance, the availability or non-availability of sporting events like the UEFA Champions League, NFL, and NBA is dependent on the location you’re streaming from.

The Australian Netflix content library is much smaller than the US one. Fortunately, it is possible to unblock American Netflix in Australia and have access to the full US content catalogue. We’ve created this guide to show you how to bypass Netflix’s geo-blocks and access your favorite US shows and movies in Australia.

Despite Australia being a popular destination for British expats, BBC iPlayer doesn’t work there. As we all know, the streaming platform only works in the UK, and if you’re a UK expat living in Australia, that may come as a huge blow. Fortunately, there is a way around it.

Hulu is currently unavailable in Australia. If you try to stream Hulu from Australia, you will get the following error: “We’re sorry. Currently, our video library can only be streamed within the United States.” In this guide I will show you how to overcome this geo-restriction.

Unfortunately, Hotstar is not available in Australia. If you try to access the service, it will load endlessly without showing any content. (An oddly way of saying it is not available in your region). You can unblock and watch Hotstar in Australia by using a VPN or Smart DNS.

Of course, things may change in the future, but at the moment, YouTube TV is officially unavailable anywhere outside of the United States, including Australia. The good news is that you can bypass the geo-restrictions and access YouTube TV unofficially, using methods like VPN and proxies.