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Pc mag webroot review12/16/2023 ![]() ![]() Webroot also isn’t ideal for anyone trying to stay as anonymous as possible. ![]() ![]() If you intend to use your VPN for bandwidth-heavy tasks then you might want to look elsewhere. Even though its performance was low I didn’t really experience much in the way of incredible delays or poor performance when using it. Webroot accepts payments via credit card and PayPal. That’s a lot of information and is by no means the norm for most VPN services. To sign up for Webroot’s WiFi security you need to supply your full name, address, and email address. It’s great that Webroot’s policy says it’s not tracking your browsing habits (though that’s par for the course for most VPNs), but you can find VPN services that do far less logging. These are similar to SaferVPN’s privacy policies-a mix of good and not-so-good. Webroot also logs the date and time of each session, the amount of data used per session, which VPN server location you’re connecting to, the country you’ve connected from (minus the IP address), and the number of devices you’re connecting simultaneously. It does collect logs of app crashes for analysis purposes, and that may include some downloaded data and DNS queries. Webroot’s privacy policy says it does not collect or log IP addresses, the sites you visit, downloaded data, or DNS queries. All of this information is available on the company’s about page. The CEO is Mike Potts and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is Hal Lonas. The company’s business address is 385 Interlocken Crescent, Suite 800, Broomfield, CO 80021. Webroot is based in Broomfield, Colorado. Speeds were also pretty good for the UK and Australian connections. That said, speeds were very good in the United States, often around 50 percent of the base speed. In our tests, which took place at different times over three days, Webroot scored significantly lower than SaferVPN, retaining around 26 percent of the base speed-that’s close to half of SaferVPN’s performance. Webroot isn’t the only VPN service to offer this kind of monitoring, F-Secure’s Freedome and NordVPN also do, but it is uncommon. If Webroot detects a site as risky, it will throw up a warning similar to the Chrome web browser, but if you still choose to go ahead and visit the site, Webroot will allow you to do so. So what is BrightCloud filtering? It’s basically a beefed up version of site filtering that acts as an extra layer of protection against malware that you may run across online. BrightCloud’s web filtering can be turned off from Settings > Web Filtering.īrightCloud is the key difference between Webroot and its progenitor. ![]()
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