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.
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.
Doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries.
Proper TLS implementation doesn't leave you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Functional kill switch.
No Wireguard support.
Torrenting is blocked on US and Australian servers.
Poor download and upload speeds.
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.
Doesn't leak your IP address or DNS queries.
Proper TLS implementation doesn't leave you vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Functional kill switch.
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.
No Wireguard support.
Poor download and upload speeds.
After converting this review to Test Bench 0.9.1, we've made some minor changes to the text for clarity and correctness.
Perfect Privacy only has a single tier, which we bought and tested.
Perfect Privacy stacks up well in the VPN market for its good security, but falls behind in other ways. Namely, it does well in its core functionality of keeping your connection encrypted, as it doesn't leak and has a functional kill switch that stops your internet connection if the VPN client crashes or your computer restarts. It also supports port forwarding, multi-hop, and obfuscation, all handy features if you need that functionality.
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 or best VPNs for Windows PCs.
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.
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.