In countries where it is not illegal to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network), you might still face legal problems if you use a VPN to access some information the government doesn't want you to access, or to spread information the government doesn't want spread. Maybe tax information or banking information, or something.
There's a new idea in the VPN world that could be very useful for some people: a VPN server that pretends to be located somewhere else.
Instead of using servers physically inside certain countries, "Smart Routing" uses servers that are, in reality, located elsewhere.
Seem to be in once place, but really be somewhere else.
I've been testing one of the VPNs that offers Smart Routing: Proton VPN.
But Proton VPN is not the only one:
Mullvad VPN out of Sweden offers something similar.
Here's a list of Proton's "ghost" locations, together with the real locations of the servers:
I hope this will be useful to enthusiastic privacy-seekers here.
(I'm not connected to any VPN service, and there is no affiliate link in that URL above.)
There's a new idea in the VPN world that could be very useful for some people: a VPN server that pretends to be located somewhere else.
Instead of using servers physically inside certain countries, "Smart Routing" uses servers that are, in reality, located elsewhere.
Seem to be in once place, but really be somewhere else.
I've been testing one of the VPNs that offers Smart Routing: Proton VPN.
But Proton VPN is not the only one:
Mullvad VPN out of Sweden offers something similar.
Here's a list of Proton's "ghost" locations, together with the real locations of the servers:
- Albania → Milan
- Algeria → Marseilles
- Angola → Marseilles
- Azerbaijan → Bucharest
- Bangladesh → Singapore
- Belarus → Warsaw
- Bhutan → Singapore
- Cambodia → Singapore
- Chad → Marseilles
- Chile → Miami
- Comoros → Marseilles
- Costa Rica → Miami
- Ecuador → Miami
- Egypt → Bucharest
- El Salvador → Miami
- Georgia → Bucharest
- India → Singapore
- Indonesia → Singapore
- Jordan → Marseilles
- Kazakhstan → Marseilles
- Kenya → Marseilles
- Malta → Marseilles
- Mauritania → Marseilles
- Mauritius → Marseilles
- Mexico → Miami
- Montenegro → Marseilles
- Morocco → Marseilles
- Mozambique → Marseilles
- Myanmar → Singapore
- Nepal → Singapore
- Nigeria → Madrid
- Pakistan → Singapore
- Peru → Miami
- Philippines → Singapore
- Puerto Rico → Miami
- Qatar → Marseille
- Rwanda → Marseilles
- Senegal → Marseilles
- Somalia → Marseilles
- South Korea → Singapore
- South Sudan → Marseilles
- Sri Lanka -> Singapore
- Syria → Marseilles
- Thailand → Singapore
- Togo → Marseilles
- Tunisia → Marseilles
- Uzbekistan → Marseilles
I hope this will be useful to enthusiastic privacy-seekers here.
(I'm not connected to any VPN service, and there is no affiliate link in that URL above.)
