[GlobalMan]

(07-18-2016 02:57 PM)seniol Wrote:  

How can you check that a certain VPN really doesn't keep logs.

Because they can claim they don't keep, just to sound better for their marketing,
but in reality to keep logs.

No, thats not the case, and not how it works. You cannot just lie in advertising, not in the the U.S. at least. They would be sued into oblivion and/or shut down by the government in short order for false advertising, facing criminal and civil penalties.

A VPN company that has been around for years will have had hundreds or thousands of requests from law enforcement, it would have been discovered long ago by multiple people that the company was in fact keeping logs and committing fraud.

If the company started yesterday and has no history, then sure it could be an outright scam. Those do not last long though.

There is no incentive for a legit company to lie in advertising and keep logs, and in fact multiple serious disincentives for doing so.

Again, we're talking in the U.S. where there are legal protections and regulations. Many other places, all bets are off.

You can say "what if they're lying" about anything, it comes down to what is most likely, and it is highly unlikely that a U.S. based VPN with a long history has been committing fraud for years undiscovered.

And if a VPN is lying and keeping logs then the fact it was "free" didn't matter anyway, you're still fucked.