But it's also possible that the company is being used to make it appear that the VPN has a UK business behind it, rather than being the product of an individual from China. Perhaps the developer wanted to do something with the company and just never got around to it. Browsing Companies House revealed that Tigervpns Ltd is registered as a UK company, but the director and shareholder is named as Jiazeng Wang (opens in new tab) from Shanghai, China, and as we write Companies House lists it as 'non-trading' and apparently based at an accommodation address. Having a developer that is part of a UK limited company sounds reassuring, but we wanted to find out more. But there's no mention of anything else the company does, and the two company domains – and – don't host any website. A caption refers to Tigervpns (UK), and a Tigervpns Ltd Facebook page refers to FreeVPN Proxy as a new service it has built. Although the website was the copyright and email message points to Tigervpns (not TigerVPN (opens in new tab), an entirely legitimate commercial VPN service from Slovakia). The confusion continued when we tried to find out who was behind the site. Is this the developer behind FreeVPN Proxy, or is FreeVPN Proxy linking to these apps because they're open source? The site doesn't say. The site contained a single web page listing news stories sourced from RFI (Radio France Internationale), various Google ads and a Get Free VPN button - nothing about the service, at all.Ĭlicking Get Free VPN opened the same GitHub page we'd encountered earlier, with basic descriptions and download links for Windows and Mac clients. Our next step was to try to find out more about the developer by heading off to its website, (opens in new tab).

Sounds good, but as these are just the words of a GitHub user called 'JJQQKK', and don't even reference FreeVPN Proxy, we weren't satisfied. A Privacy Policy (hosted on GitHub, oddly) claims the service only records your IP address, inbound and outbound data totals during a session, and deletes these when the session ends. The extension's Chrome store page (opens in new tab) claims that 'no log is saved from any users'. Could this be logging your online activities?

This doesn't guarantee your anonymity, of course, because your traffic is being redirected through a server chosen by the developer.

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