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Mullvad starts by recommending Sweden (Mullvad’s home base) as the default connection option, but it’ll remember where you last connected to afterwards.

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While neither the Windows software nor Android app that I tested for this review are much to write home about in terms of their design, they get the job done in a straightforward way. The simplification returns when it comes to actually using Mullvad VPN. Couple this with Mullvad’s zero-logging policy, and this is a VPN service that takes user privacy very seriously.

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While it is trickier to recall than a username and password, and it doesn’t play as nice with password managers that seek out a username/password combo, it does mean that your VPN connection is protected at an account level because there’s no need to supply personal information, not even an email address. This is a bit pesky and requires you to jot it down somewhere (ideally, somewhere secure) in order to use Mullvad across devices. Instead of creating a password associated with your email address username, Mullvad assigns you a unique account number.

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Now that Computerworld, and all of parent company IDG's websites, have eliminated user comments, you can get in touch with me privately by email at my full name at Gmail.While payment is straightforward, the first quirk of Mullvad VPN comes when after you sign up. Although support is not listed here for Chrome OS, I stumbled across a new page on their site (just over a week old) that describes setting up L2TP on Chrome OS. Moved Private Internet Access from the NO column to the YES column. Providing VPN protection to devices that can't get it on their own, is only one advantage of a VPN router. Afterwards, any device connected to that router, goes through the VPN tunnel created by the router. That is, rather than your computing device (computer/tablet/phone) making the connection to a VPN provider, the router makes the connection. Here, I use it to describe routers that run VPN client software. Initially it referred to a router that ran VPN server software. The term 'VPN router' is also gray, having multiple meanings. Like TunnelBear, they do not support Chrome OS natively, but they do offer their VPN service as a Chrome browser extension that works on Chromebooks.įinally, let me point out that any Wi-Fi device, including Chromebooks, can get the benefit of VPN protection by connecting to a VPN router.

UPDATE: Private Internet Access is in the same boat. When Leo Notenboom recently traveled with a Chromebook, Tunnelbear was his VPN provider. While they do not support Chrome OS directly, they do offer their VPN as a Chrome browser extension, which runs just fine on a Chromebook. TunnelBear is also in a gray area, but a very different shade of gray. They told me that their service does work with Chromebooks but it is not officially supported. In each case the link is not to their home page, rather it is either to Chromebook setup instructions or to a page that describes their Chromebook support.

The following nine companies support Chrome OS natively. And the support can't be all that limited, below are nine VPN companies that do support Chrome OS. Support for VPNs has, no doubt, changed over the lifespan of Chrome OS. Why is this annoying? Because there is no way to know when that sentence was written.

Their website answers the burning question, Do you support Chromebook? with 'At this time Google Chromebook has very limited VPN support.' I should add that OVPN exclusively supports OpenVPN and the companies that do support Chrome OS, at least the ones I ran across, do so via L2TP.Ī comment made by IVPN also stood out. We do not feel comfortable offering any configuration files with uniquely identifiable information, which is why all of our configuration files use the same keys across all users and platforms, something that ChromeOS unfortunately does not seem to support at the moment. onc file to be used, which also requires a unique GUID to be entered. That said, Maximilian Holm of OVPN explained the company's positionĬhromeOS requires their own.

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