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Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN tenth birthday celebrations! From a two servers service located in a single country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 22 countries in three continents, providing now 240,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. In 2019 and 2020, software development enhancement has paid off: now AirVPN develops on its own an OpenVPN3 forked library which resolves various problems from the main branch and adds new features. The library is used in Hummingbird, a free and open source software for Linux and Mac, known for its speed and compactness, in Eddie Android edition and in a new software which will be announced in June. Hummingbird has been released even for ARM based Linux devices, and runs fine for example in Raspberry PI. Eddie Desktop edition has been extensively rewritten to improve performance, reliability and security. Now anything not related to the user interface is written in C++ and a lot of security hardening has been implemented. Total compatibility with macOS Catalina, Windows 10 and latest Linux distributions has been achieved, and specific packages for various, widespread Linux distributions are available for easier installation. Eddie can act as a GUI for Hummingbird in Linux and Mac, while in Windows, Eddie can also be easily configured to run OpenVPN 2.5 with the wintun driver to achieve remarkable OpenVPN performance boost and put Windows on par with other systems OpenVPN throughput ability. Furthermore, the wintun driver resolves various problems which affected TAP-Windows driver. Development for OpenBSD and FreeBSD has been unfortunately re-planned but we're glad to announce here that it will continue, starting from summer 2020. All AirVPN applications and libraries are free and open source software released under GPLv3. We think that it's somehow surprising that AirVPN not only survived, but even flourished for 10 years, in an increasingly competitive market and increasingly privacy hostile environment. No whistles and bells, no marketing fluff, no fake locations, no advertising on mainstream media, a transparent privacy policy, no trackers on the web site or in mobile applications, no bullshit of any kind in our infrastructure to sell your personal data to any personal data merchant, and above all a clear mission that is the very reason which AirVPN operates for https://airvpn.org/mission , are probably, all together, the factors which allowed such a small "miracle" and maybe make AirVPN unique. Thank you all, you users, customers, members of the community, moderators, developers: the small "miracle" happened because of you, because you saw something in AirVPN. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

While the traffic between your endpoint and the server is encrypted, the traffic between the server and your destination is not. That traffic must somehow leave the datacenter as well, so theoretically it's still possible for a datacenter operator to keep records of connections, transferred bytes, duration, maybe even the rough destination, etc. this way. A less friendly legal framework compels the operator to do that, while a more friendly one gives some freedom of choice in this regard. Of course this won't allow the datacenter to match some traffic to a certain user. Under this premise choice of location does matter, despite the no-log tag of the VPN provider.

Neither. You do that on your main NiC adapter(Ethernet/Wifi). Go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Network Connections.-->>Ethernet-->Properties-->Internet Protocol version v4(TCP/IPv4). In Qbit you don't have the option to set your own DNS servers as far as I know. Such as 10.4.0.1/10.5.0.1. That is when "Block all your interfaces except TAP/VPN" comes in handy.(Link below)

Mullvad is also not on the list. And NordVPN appears very nice, which it absolutely is not (see the appropriate forum for all the crap NordVPN managed to do). In my opinion an AV testing project should keep comparing AV software and not drift away to topics they don't know much about. They managed to include 12 VPN offers bundled with AV programs. Also, HideMyAss should have been thrown out completely because they betrayed users in the past, no sense in listing them in a comparison stating that "no-log is absolutely required". If it was truly required, all AV-bundled VPNs wouldn't be there as well. And it takes a few minutes of browsing Reddit to notice AirVPN and Mullvad. Guess, Reddit wasn't a good source for the ladies and gentlemen at AV Comparatives.

If you recently have had problems connecting Eddie (could be due to newer win 10 updates), try recommendations in this Microsoft-link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929852/guidance-for-configuring-ipv6-in-windows-for-advanced-users The download alternative "Prefer ipv4 over ipv6" worked for me. hensel