VPN How-To Guides
How do you use a VPN to stay safe online? How do you connect to an IP address in another country? How do you change the language on your VPN, set it to connect as soon as you log in, engage or disengage the kill switch? Privacy Journal is your source for VPN how-to guides.
Why You Need How-To Guides for VPNs
Most virtual private network (VPN) services do their best to make their apps easy to understand. Still, if you’re not familiar with how to use a VPN, even the best-designed clients have some unintuitive aspects. After all, most VPN designers are intimately familiar with VPNs themselves, so regular users can sometimes get left in the cold.
Some VPNs put connection front and center, while extra features take a little more effort to find.
Privacy Journal has you covered with how-to guides for these VPN tasks and many others. From download and installation to troubleshooting and advanced use, there’s a guide here for every step of VPN usage.
How to Change VPN Servers
One of the most important actions you can take with a VPN is to choose a location to connect to. As central as this is to the app’s function, it’s not always clear that changing locations is an option. Server lists and location maps can take some work to decode.
If you learn to switch your IP location, you can explore streaming in other countries, access your home systems from abroad and even hunt for bargains across the world.
- How to Change Your IP Address
- How to Change Netflix Region
- How to Change VPN Location
- How to Unblock Netflix
Due to international copyright law, Netflix has a different library in each country — and some streaming platforms only work in one country, like Hulu in the U.S.
How to Get U.S. Netflix
How to Get Other Netflix Libraries
How to Add Extra Security
Our guides also go beyond VPNs to encompass the entire world of security. If you’ve ever wondered how you can really stop hackers, or what a social engineering attack is (and how to foil it), we’ve got the answers.
Next time you get an email telling you that you’ve won the lottery in Jamaica, you’ll be ready to tell the scammers exactly where they can shove it.
- How to Avoid Internet Scams
- How to Avoid NFT Scams
- How to Avoid Email Scams
- How to Avoid Social Media Scams
- How to Avoid Online Dating Scams
- How to Avoid eBay Scams
Or perhaps you’ve heard about the “dark web,” and you’re wondering what it is and whether you’d ever want to visit. We’ve got the scoop on how to use Tor browser, whether it’s safe and what you’ll find on the hidden side of the internet.
Top VPNs: How-To Guides
If you are using a specific VPN, check out these guides on the best VPNs so you can use the VPN features to their fullest capacity.
How to Use ExpressVPN
- How to Get an ExpressVPN Free Trial
- How to Torrent With ExpressVPN
- How to Watch Netflix With ExpressVPN
Read the full ExpressVPN review here.
How to Use NordVPN
- How to Get a NordVPN Free Trial
- How to Watch Netflix With NordVPN
- How to Troubleshoot NordVPN & Netflix
- How to Torrent With NordVPN
Read the full NordVPN review here.
Other VPN How-To Guides
Conclusion: VPN How-To Guides
Learning how to use a VPN isn’t hard, but it takes some help to get started. With our guides on your side, you’ll be warping around the virtual world like a pro in no time. Check out Privacy Journal’s VPN How To articles — you never know what wonders await you on Japanese Netflix!