Free VPNs are a privacy nightmare. You shouldn’t download them

Free VPN apps often fail to protect users and can actively collect their data, according to this WIRED UK article, which advises against picking one at random from app stores. Top10VPN's Simon Migliano says that when the 150 top Android VPNs were first tested, as many as 25 per cent leaked data, and almost one in ten still did in follow-up tests. The article cites UFO VPN, whose 2020 database exposed logs, access records and plain-text passwords, and it recommends Windscribe and ProtonVPN as free options with solid security and transparency records.