It supports torrenting, although, for Windows, you need to turn on the Hide My IP in All Applications in the app’s settings. It also states that it can protect you against IP leaks such as the WebRTC IP leak in Chrome and Firefox. To protect your privacy, the vendor deploys 256-bit AES encryption with 2048-bit key. The vendor has 137 virtual locations with thousands of IPs in 120+ cities all over the world, in countries like Mexico, Honduras, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Latvia, Ukraine, Russia, Morocco, Kenya, Egypt, Cambodia, China, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Vietnam, and more. Do note that this location isn’t ideal in terms of personal privacy as the US is one of the members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance, and has a general reputation of being a privacy-unfriendly place. which is registered in San Diego, California. Hide My IP is owned by the company My Privacy Tools, Inc. You just need to turn on its Firefox or Chrome extension and you’re good to go. Hide My IP has this sort of capability, since, in its own words, it changes your IP location “to unblock sites like Hulu, Netflix, BBC iPlayer, Pandora, or other sites which may be censored by your ISP or in your country”. Streamingīeing able to unblock the popular geographically restricted streaming platforms like Netflix and BBC iPlayer is a desirable feature for any VPN service. Hide My IP is very good but still has some work to do before it becomes as powerful as ExpressVPN, NordVPN, CyberGhost, or Surfshark, all of which have more advanced platforms, with thousands of servers and lots of features, options, and extras.