We received an email immediately after signing up with a cancellation link, and used this later to close our account in a couple of clicks. Sounds good, but we checked the small print, and there it mentions a 7-day refund period only.Īccounts are set up to automatically renew, but this can be handled via UFO's payment provider, FasterPay. The site claims there's a 30-day money-back guarantee. Payments are taken by card and Bitcoin (via Coinspayments) only. Ivacy asks only $2.45 a month for its two-year contract, for instance (and throws in 2TB of cloud storage for free), while Private Internet Access has a three-year plan at just $2.19 a month.Īlthough the website mentions PayPal support in a couple of places, it wasn't available during the review. That's way below most of the competition, although there are a handful of cheaper deals around. The two-year plan wins out, though, at only $2.91 a month. The annual plan is a better deal at an effective $4.17. Unusually, you can sign up for a one-off week, although as that's still $7.99, we wouldn't recommend it. UFO VPN's monthly billing is $11.99, a little more than most. UFO VPN supports card and cryptocurrency payments (but not PayPal) (Image credit: UFO VPN) UFO VPN pricing And it's not something explained by the privacy policy. While it's certainly not as bad as keeping a full browser history and associating it with an account, it is a form of session logging. UFO VPN told Comparitech that the bulk of this data was anonymous and couldn't be used to identify users. UFO VPN denied this, but a researcher claimed to verify the problem by setting a password for their own account, and watching it appear in the database. The databases also reportedly included passwords in plain text, perhaps allowing anyone who found this database to hijack user accounts. In 2020, Comparitech reported finding a publicly available log containing millions of records on UFO VPN users.ĭetails included the IP addresses of user devices and VPN servers, connection timestamps, geo-tags, device characteristics, VPN session secrets and tokens, and more. Why would the old app not be on Google Play, and what might persuade a company to set up a new website and use another developer name? The first UFO VPN website doesn't say, but we have an idea. This had a different icon and developer's name, but its website was almost identical, and linked to the same iOS app as the original UFO VPN. We searched Google Play manually, and found an Android app named UFO VPN.

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