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Treat yourself to Ivacy VPN, a service you may not know you need

A virtual private network (VPN) is a quality of life change that squarely falls into the category of, “once you use it, you can’t do without”.

It really can be placed right there in the upper echelons of tech upgrades. Remember when you finally upgraded to a FullHD 1080p TV or monitor? Or ditching dial up for ADSL, and then abandoning that for fibre? Or more recently going from an HDD to an SSD, and maybe even an NVMe SSD.

Using a VPN really is that much of a game changer, and Ivacy VPN is one of the best out there. But what are you missing out on?

The big one, especially here in South Africa, is access to content. Despite the world wide web being, well, world wide, the internet is not equal across the globe. All the big streaming sites gate off certain shows, movies, documentaries and more depending on where you live.

Your friend in the US or the UK are probably enjoying a much larger or more diverse library on places like Netflix compared to you. And that’s the best case scenario, because certain platforms like Disney+ aren’t even available here yet.

Ivacy VPN has servers in these locations and more.

A VPN lets you “pretend” that you’re in another country. All you need to do is fire the software up, select a country like the US, the UK or one of the 100 other locations on offer from Ivacy VPN, and you’re off to the races. The streaming service will then show you all the content you weren’t able to access before, just because of the country you’re in.

This way you can access those coveted US and UK Netflix libraries – and a lot more – from anywhere in the world.

That’s more on the leisure side of things, but a big part of using a VPN is for security.

You may not know it, but every single site you visit can see your IP address – a semi-unique string which identifies where and who you are. This is on top of the vast amount of tracking cookies and other codes which create a virtual fingerprint everywhere you go online.

Ever wondered how a website knows your location? Your preferences? Maybe even your demographic data and other details you didn’t explicitly provide? This is exactly why.

When connected through a VPN you can obfuscate these details and go about your business in peace. The prying eyes of the internet will still be looking through the window, but at least Ivacy VPN can act as your curtains.

If you’re of a more technical mind this software adds countless other security and functionality features too, such as not keeping logs of your browser history, support for multiple device logins, an internet kill switch and more.

There’s always the less-talked about benefits too. Earlier this year when underseas internet cables broke and internet speed was kneecapped across the country, using a VPN helped us stay online.

With everything Ivacy VPN has on offer you may expect it to be priced to the moon or squarely into the territory of “don’t ask”, but that’s not the case.

You can get a one month subscription for just $9.95, or a year for $3.50 per month.

If that’s still too much how does just $1.16 per month sound? Ivacy VPN has a limited-time offer for a five-year subscription. This is by far the best deal and offers you the longest subscription time for the least amount of money per month.

Ivacy VPN’s range of pricing options.
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