Since only browser activity is encrypted, using a browser extension leaves your other app connections unsecured. However, there are some glitches here as well, requiring reinstallation on Chrome during our testing, and running both the desktop app and the browser extension at the same time also caused problems. The browser extensions do offer ad-tracking blockers, anti-malware, and a feature allowing you to set up “smart locations” for websites. In Windows, ZenMate is a system tray app, so you have to find and click the icon in order to use it. ZenMate also lacks a broad range of device compatibility-for example, no router installation or Linux.
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At this time, all you get for the desktop app is a big connect button and the server location. Since ZenMate started out as a browser extension, it still lags behind as a desktop app. But users who want to be able to tweak settings and view more connection details (VPN protocol, new IP address) should look elsewhere. If you are a “click and forget” fan, ZenMate could be perfect for you. If you live in one of the covered areas, ZenMate will probably work fine for you, but keep in mind that smaller networks can get congested and make maintaining anonymity a bit harder. It does cover the US, Canada, Australia, UK, and western Europe, but many other popular locations are missing, including Brazil, Mexico, and Singapore. ZenMate has only 23 server locations, one of the smallest networks on the VPN market. Unfortunately, ZenMate does not provide much information about what encryption and protocols it uses-the preferred OpenVPN is apparently not used-and it offers no additional obfuscation tools or protections. However, it is not clear how long ZenMate stores this information, and this does matter, since it is subject to EU data retention laws. ZenMate does almost no connection metadata logging-merely storing IP addresses temporarily on their servers, along with the volume of data for their Limited plans. ZenMate’s privacy protection is only very basic. However, the limited server locations means users can’t unblock content in a number of popular areas. ZenMate works with Netflix, Google/Gmail, Facebook, Kodi, BBC iPlayer, and other streaming and torrenting sites. Ping time was also below average browser extensions were better, at 80% of our usual connection speed, but had some technical issues (see the Ease of Use section below).
In North America, Israel, Australia, and Hong Kong we saw consistently poor speeds, making video streams virtually unwatchable.
Also, the server speeds were inconsistent (as much as six times faster/slower), both from day to day and for different server locations.
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