Perfect Privacy is a VPN service founded in 2009. The company doesn't publicly publish its ownership. It has servers in over 20 countries, support for most platforms, unlimited simultaneous connections, and features like obfuscation, multi-hop, and 'NeuroRouting.' The latter is a feature that purportedly dynamically routes your traffic through VPN servers that are closest to your final destination on the internet.
Our Verdict
Perfect Privacy is great for torrenting. It allows you to download P2P files in most countries and doesn't have a data limit. It has outstanding security, keeping your IP address and DNS queries within its tunnel while you use it. Its kill switch also works properly, preventing any of your data from leaking outside the VPN tunnel in the event of a system reboot or a software crash. It has no registration options that preserve your anonymity, as you must provide an email address and password to create an account, but you can pay with Bitcoin. Unfortunately, it doesn't support Wireguard, which is generally faster and better performing than OpenVPN. Also, P2P is blocked on American and Australian servers, so if you're in those countries, you'll have to connect to different servers if you want to download torrents at the cost of speed.
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Doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries.
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Proper TLS implementation doesn't leave you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Functional kill switch.
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No Wireguard support.
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Torrenting is blocked on US and Australian servers.
Perfect Privacy has excellent security. It doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries while you're connected to it, and it has proper TLS implementation, protecting you from man-in-the-middle attacks. Also, its kill switch works properly, so your data won't leak outside the VPN tunnel if your internet reconnects or if you restart your system.
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Doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries.
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Proper TLS implementation doesn't leave you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
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Functional kill switch.
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No Wireguard support.
Perfect Privacy has poor download and upload speeds, so downloading or uploading large files will take some time. Its latency performance is okay, however, so it's fine for everyday browsing.
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No Wireguard support.
Changelog
Differences Between Sizes And Variants
Perfect Privacy only has a single tier, which we bought and tested.
Compared To Other VPNs
Perfect Privacy is one of the only VPN services with a functional kill switch that we tested, making it a fantastic option if you want full protection in case your internet connection drops or your system reboots. Nearly all other VPNs we tested leaked unencrypted traffic when the kill switch was supposed to prevent anything from sliding past it.
That said, Perfect Privacy has some significant downsides, namely, its lack of Wireguard support. It's the most modern and lightweight VPN protocol that's significantly faster and more performant than OpenVPN. Additionally, it only has servers in 23 countries, and torrenting is blocked on the American and Australian servers, which can be an inconvenience if you don't want the speed and latency penalty of connecting to a server further away.
To see which services we recommend, check out our article on the best VPNs.
Test Results
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Perfect Privacy doesn't implement BGP properly, but this is true with almost every VPN service.
Perfect Privacy has slow download speeds, so it takes a long time to download large files, but it's still fine for normal browsing and streaming content.
This VPN delivers passable upload speeds that are fairly consistent and suitable for everyday use. Uploading large files won't be the fastest, however.
This VPN has somewhat low latency depending on the server you connect to. That said, it's not the most consistent, so you could experience occasional interruptions in latency-sensitive tasks like gaming or video calls.
Peer-to-peer services are blocked on servers in the USA and Australia.
This VPN has a native app for Ubuntu, but you can also manually configure an OpenVPN connection on other distributions.
It also has apps available on iOS, Android, and Fire TV, and you can install it on your router so all your network traffic goes through the VPN.
IPSec with L2TP is only available on iOS.
