60 PCWorld JANUARY 2022REVIEWS BEST VPN SERVICES
you are the way Mullvad does. Mullvad
doesn’t ask for your email address, name, or
anything else. Instead it assigns a
random account number that acts
as your identifier and login. Mullvad
accepts payments using standard
methods such as credit cards and
PayPal, but you can also mail your
payment in cash to remain as
private as possible. Mullvad has a
no-logging policy and doesn’t
collect any identifying metadata
from your usage.
Mullvad is also fast, ranking
within our top five for speeds.
Though oddly we did find that on
Windows, Mullvad’s OpenVPNconfiguration was actually faster than its
Wireguard implementation.BEST VPN FOR PRIVACY
RUNNER-UP: IVPN
Price: $6 per month (fave.co/3sq9ZU7)
Coming in behind Mullvad is IVPN. This
Gibraltar-based VPN recently moved to
dumping email-based identifiers and going
with randomly assigned account numbers
instead. Similar to Mullvad, it accepts a variety
of payment options for privacy, including
cash, as well as the standard credit cards,
PayPal, and other options like Bitcoin and
Monero. IVPN doesn’t rank as one of our
fastest VPNs, but it does have acceptable
speeds for most casual uses.
Another option is OVPN (fave.
co/3ASQaFG). This VPN doesn’t go to theAn active
connection in
Mullvad for
Windows.IVPN’s connection settings let you switch to using the
WireGuard protocol.