Reviews for Private Internet Access
Private Internet Access by PrivateInternetAccess
Review by Firefox user 17060328
Rated 5 out of 5
by Firefox user 17060328, 4 years agoIt has worked really well until firefox for whatever reason started to put a stick in the wheel and the whole system crashed down. I felt safe exploring in other countries not feeling Google breathing up my neck. Why o why does Firefox in it's search box have google as the first choice when I fill in www. It almost seems that firefox little by little is infiltrated by this company which I try to avoid by all means.
Yuval Harari is warning us for this phenomenon.
I just hope I am wrong
Just been reading the reviews and I can only come to one conclusion. The problems people experience is not due PIA but the upgrade of Firefox. I really enjoy firefox but It doesn't help if firefox doesn't allow another layer of protection to work, actually deny it to work. Which should be my choice. Otherwise it goes in the direction of Google. Using e.g Tor browser (10 years ago) made google's hair standing up. As if I don't have the freedom to decide if I want to get my toilet paper from A because google decides I should get it from Z. Is there any concern from firefox about PIA or is it that firefox itself performs the same bullshit as Google?
In the 90ties one could do a search and have an outcome. now only selling things we don't need, poluting the world and our minds with unwanted issues. Trying to sell, sell, sell sell. And not adding anything positive than satisfying our pathetic EGO
Yuval Harari is warning us for this phenomenon.
I just hope I am wrong
Just been reading the reviews and I can only come to one conclusion. The problems people experience is not due PIA but the upgrade of Firefox. I really enjoy firefox but It doesn't help if firefox doesn't allow another layer of protection to work, actually deny it to work. Which should be my choice. Otherwise it goes in the direction of Google. Using e.g Tor browser (10 years ago) made google's hair standing up. As if I don't have the freedom to decide if I want to get my toilet paper from A because google decides I should get it from Z. Is there any concern from firefox about PIA or is it that firefox itself performs the same bullshit as Google?
In the 90ties one could do a search and have an outcome. now only selling things we don't need, poluting the world and our minds with unwanted issues. Trying to sell, sell, sell sell. And not adding anything positive than satisfying our pathetic EGO
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, 7 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.