Private Internet Access Review 2024

The Private Internet Access VPN provides exactly what its name implies: private access to the internet. But we tested it to see how it performs, and here’s what we found.

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By Aliza Vigderman Aliza Vigderman, Senior Editor, Industry Analyst & Gabe Turner Gabe Turner, Chief Editor
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Editors Rating:
9.4 /10

What We Like

What We Don't Like

  • Headquartered in the U.S: PIA’s Denver headquarters means it’s part of multiple international surveillance alliances, so the company has obligations to share customer data with the government when necessary.
  • Mixed customer support experience: We got quick responses from the company sometimes, but other times, we had to wait for days.

Bottom Line

With some VPNs, private browsing on the internet isn't truly private, but that's not the case with Private Internet Access. It didn't log any of our browsing data, so we could surf the web freely, watch Netflix, and torrent files.
Citations
  1. PIA. (2022). PIA Announces Completion of Independent Audit Conducted by a Big Four Firm.
    privateinternetaccess.com/blog/privacy-audit/

  2. PIA. (2021). Private Internet Access Privacy Policy. privateinternetaccess.com/privacy-policy

  3. Federal Information Processing Standards. (2001). Announcing the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).
    nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.197.pdf

  4. Google Security Blog. (2017). Announcing the first SHA1 collision.
    security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html

  5. Cornell University. (2021). How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits.
    arxiv.org/abs/1905.09749