Best VPN for privacy
Weighted for a reader whose threat model is surveillance, not geo-blocking: the logging policy, jurisdiction, published audits and open-source clients dominate, and streaming access counts for nothing.
This is the same cohort as the all-round ranking, scored on the same evidence, only the weighting changes. Dimensions that matter more for this use case pull harder; the providers do not move because we found new facts, but because a different question is being asked of the same ones.
The ranking
Privacy first weighting · 4 providers
Each bar is the interval a score provably sits in: the left edge is what a provider has earned outright, the right edge is the most it could reach if everything we have not measured went perfectly. The mark is the published figure, see the methodology.
How this ranking is weighted
Privacy first. For readers whose threat model is surveillance rather than geo-blocking. Logging policy, jurisdiction, published audits and open-source clients dominate; streaming access is worth nothing.
See the methodology for the full weight table and how each dimension is scored.
Reading a score
- Measured
- We produced this number ourselves and can reproduce it.
- Documented
- Read out of a primary document: a privacy policy, an audit report, or source code.
- Vendor-claimed
- Asserted by the provider. We have not independently verified it, and the score is capped accordingly.
- No evidence
- We found nothing to score. The dimension is excluded from the weighted mean rather than counted as zero.