What you need to know about VPNs in 2026

While once only the purview of nerds, criminals and the unusually paranoid, virtual private networks (VPNs) have become a vital and mainstream security tool. Though they’ve yet to completely shake a common association with the illegal or unsavoury elements of the internet, VPNs have been adopted by all sorts of web users for all sorts of reasons.

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