There is no longer any excuse not to use a VPN provider

Comparison of permanently free VPN providers for personal use

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There are quite a bunch of VPN providers out in the wild.

The currently best, non-free all-in-one VPN provider

A pretty well-known and the probably best all-round VPN provider is CyberGhost (company location: Romania).

For an in depth comparison of all non-free tiers in german head over to here.

Cost considerations

ATM the cheapest pricing option for CyberGhost is 2.19 EUR/month for a 2 years plan. Means rounded 30 EUR/year for the first 2 years and rounded 60 EUR/year afterwards. That’s a pretty good deal already. Paid tiers of other non-free provider tiers is up to 10 EUR/month.

If you are located in Germany and

• are self-employed or
• if you can prove to the tax office that you need it for home office

the cost is tax-deductible (resulting in a cost reduction based on income)

• with 100% or
• up to 100 % based on ratio between home office and work on site. The more time consuming option is to provide an individual proof of the…