sandia911

Hi all,

I'm moving to Saudi Arabia to work.

I need to surf the internet for personal use at home every night using my laptop. I don't have other connected devices.

Areas most important to me: Extensive tabbed browsing, youtube videos and skype-skype with webcam. Also downloading (torrent).

My question is should I purchase a VPN service such as:

CyberGhost, AirVPN, PureVpn, ExpressVPN, StrongVPN, HidemyAss

Or go with the free Chrome extensions:

DotVPN, FreeMyBrowser, GomVPN, UltraSurf, Zenmate, etc..

Another question I had is If I choose the route of buying a VPN service over the free extensions, which company provides the best connection in Saudi Arabia? Cheers.

norsk

Do you want to increase the chance of the regulators blocking any other VPN providers or are you done?

Honestly the benefit of paid over free is speed and available locations. For example if you want to use BBC iPlayer you need a UK based VPN and speed will be critical unless you love buffering.

It's only around $10 a month. Pony up the dosh.

All the things you mentioned are available without VPN by the way. Even in Saudi. I know of one public torrent site which is blocked and that is only because the url contains the word ASS

sandia911

Haha. sorry I didn't realize the names were sensitive.

Are you saying i can view any youtube video I like in Saudi without a VPN?

norsk

not sensitive as such, but why tempt fate? this is a public website (shows up in google etc) after all.

yes you can. there are no blocks on youtube that I am aware of

scrubbedexpat141

The fourth you've mentioned (paid) I have and is very good.

Now go back, edit your post and remove the names.

norsk

I have one that is not mentioned so no worries..

scrubbedexpat141

It doesn't really matter, because I've got it. It's just when I bought new laptop I couldn't get on their site to download again. Took ages to figure a workaround.

scrubbedexpat141

Edit your post to remove the names......

TheShed

I use the third one and have had no issues whatsoever. Quite a bit cheaper than no.4

scrubbedexpat141

Because when someone tries to sign up to one, it may be blocked.

It sounds a little bit Big Brother but I can imagine Expat Forums are a good source of information for websites that authorities in different places may wish to ban.

Beakersful

and...............CG went down yesterday after this thread came on the governments radar. Coincidence? If so, thanks Sandia911 [/s]

sandia911

Im sorry I don't know how to edit the post. Also, if it's so important why doesn't the moderator remove it?

sandia911

I ended up going with IPA, it was not on the list, but it was cheap ($40/year).

Beakersful

Well, it's on the government's list now you've mentioned it by acronym.

sandia911

I find it hard to believe the "government" doesn't know this information already. Do you really think they make decisions based on what acronyms are posted on this or any other forum? If the moderator wants he can delete the post. Obviously, it's not that important.

Also, if you advise me how to edit or delete the post, I will do it myself. But, really I doubt it works like the way you implied.