Somewhat ironically, the iTop VPN extension is available in the Google Web Store for Chromium-based browsers, including Chrome and Edge. I say “at this stage” because it has only recently been released and I am hopeful that the developers might eventually fix those issues. I had high hopes for iTop VPN Browser but, alas, the negatives are far too many and far too critical to recommend or even contemplate recommending it at this stage. However, unfortunately, it also comes with a fair few negatives:Īd-Supported: While the built-in ad-blocker works well enough it doesn’t prevent the browser from generating its own ads which are displayed top and bottom of most web pages and are apparently used to generate a source of income for iTop. Now, you’d think that a browser with so many built-in privacy features would be appealing, and it is. I also installed the browser inside Sandboxie which allowed me to scan every file and registry entry isolated within the sandbox folder through Malwarebytes and it also came up 100% clean. I scanned the downloaded executable through Virus Total and it came up 100% clean. ITop VPN Browser comes with a slew of privacy features built in including anti-tracking, ad blocker, surfing protection, as well as the obvious VPN: In this article, I’ll be testing both the browser and browser extension. Hong Kong based company iTop‘s primary product is a VPN but it has also released a free browser with VPN built-in and a free VPN browser extension.
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