TunnelBear

Where it stands

Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works

Read automatically from TunnelBear's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured

• Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 24 ms.
• Security4.3 / 53 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, x-frame-options).
• Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
• Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.

Not enough discussion yet: 8 classified comments from 3 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.

• Positive

  “TunnelBear is a great product, one which I've been using for a few years, and I trust them with my business. I wish services like Netflix didn't blacklist their IPs, but it's easy enough to get content off alternative…”

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• Positive

  “Instead what we have is a pdf (4 pages long) with the title "TunnelBear Security Assessment Summary 07.2017" and an equally long web page claiming how awesome and transparent this is.”

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• Critical

  “I want to thank the Tunnelbear guys, they've made their service free for everyone in Venezuela during the protests, to avoid government internet censorship (which is about to get worse since they are now meeting with the…”

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• Critical

  “Hey svintus, I think your friend Gita was just telling me about you a few weeks ago :) Do you quit your job to work on tunnelbear, huh. People like you belong on my hero-bookcase I'm trying to avoid proprietary OS's now…”

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Threads: TunnelBear Joins McAfee (2018, 106 comments) · TunnelBear Publishes Security Audit (2017, 58 comments) · TunnelBear VPN app (2014, 45 comments)