Reviews for Private Internet Access
Private Internet Access by PrivateInternetAccess
Review by Miles B Huff
Rated 1 out of 5
by Miles B Huff, 6 years agoUPDATE: The plugin has been completely unusable for several months now. The problem is that it constantly asks for your username and password, there is no way to save them, and entering them just results in another prompt.
It's working relatively well so far, but there are a couple problems:
1. We're forced to use Firefox's builtin tracking protection (privacy.trackingprotection.pbmode.enabled). I really dislike this, because I prefer to use PrivacyBadger to dynamically block trackers. This should be user-configurable.
2. I'm prompted to relogin every time I open a Private Window. I would much prefer for it to work seamlessly, remembering my credentials the way it normally does.
It's working relatively well so far, but there are a couple problems:
1. We're forced to use Firefox's builtin tracking protection (privacy.trackingprotection.pbmode.enabled). I really dislike this, because I prefer to use PrivacyBadger to dynamically block trackers. This should be user-configurable.
2. I'm prompted to relogin every time I open a Private Window. I would much prefer for it to work seamlessly, remembering my credentials the way it normally does.
Developer response
posted 6 years agoWe appreciate all of our customer’s valuable insights, suggestions, and feedback!
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363 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Coltaine, a month ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Pete, 2 months agoWorks OK most of the time, but the connection just dies occasionally requiring switching to a different server. This can result in multiple active logins (ie Facebook). Desperately needs a kill-switch feature to block traffic when the VPN proxy server connection fails. Also needs an option to autostart the VPN with the browser startup.
Over-all it does what I need, but plenty of room for improved reliability and features. - Rated 1 out of 5by Clark, 4 months agoThis addon has never worked on firefox. For over 3 years. no issues with it on unix or windows but as an extension in browers never worked.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18797758, 4 months agoA number of updates over the last year or so have removed servers from the available list until today there is only one server. The speed it bad and you constantly have to change servers to keep your connection working. You get logged out all the time. Use a different service.
- Rated 5 out of 5by hobbyist, 5 months agoSimply the best. This is the serious team that protects your anonymity and privacy. I am a very long long user and in my opinion there is no competitor in the field in this price.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 16922588, 5 months agoI have been using PIA for 1 year. Love it. A lot of flexibility.
- Rated 5 out of 5by toni, 6 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Artur, 7 months agoI am very pleased with the quality and effectiveness of this add -on. It is very helpful and complements the PIA VPN program (application). It has several options that strengthen anonymity on the Internet.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18642842, 7 months agoThis plugin causes conflicts with my Hikvision camera plugin. I can display my two cameras on the web gui when this plugin is disabled. However, when this plugin is enabled it interferes and causes the video window to be too large and offset to the right (so the second camera is not visible).
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18617058, 8 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by uzer010101, 8 months ago10+ years and no issues, no troubles, no competitor, works fine on windows, ubuntu, arch linux, in vms.
- Rated 5 out of 5by farts, 9 months ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14609082, 9 months agoAlways goes down for extended periods of time. It shows it's connected but you can't load pages. Sometimes reinstalling gets it working again but only lasts a short while.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 17025688, 10 months agoServers frequently drop out and stop working, and when that's not the issue it completely messes up and "Fails to Authenticate" forcing me to have to resign in. It's a bloody unreliable hassle that has been happening for the past year.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13428239, 10 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Joshy, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by catch22, a year ago10+ years use no issues one of the safest trusted and reliable on win nix and others
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 17596741, a year agoWhy is it that EVERY SINGLE TIME I start up this addon I have to flip through the entire list of regions 10-20 times just to find 1 working connection?
- Rated 1 out of 5by mikeeu, a year agoDoesn't have all server location for whatever reason. Entirely useless
- Rated 1 out of 5by bro, a year agoUsed to work for me although it sometimes just disconnect and need to retype password. Now, I cant even connect to the internet when it is on in firefox (works on brave tho) . Looks like I wont be renewing my subscription.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Fire.Fox, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Dextofen, a year ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Ujjwal Aryan, a year ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Mark, a year agoStill randomly disconnects and requires password to be retyped in, or randomly get proxy errors and have to restart.