Disclosure & Testing Method

How Fast VPN Services earns money, exactly how providers are tested, and the limits of the advice published here.

Current version: 23 August 2026

This page covers three things: how fastvpnservices.com earns money, how our testing is done, and the limits of the advice published here. It is deliberately specific, because a privacy site that is vague about its own incentives is not worth reading.

1. Commercial disclosure

Some links to VPN providers, VPS hosts and security tools are affiliate links. If you sign up through one, we may receive a one-off or recurring commission. You pay the same price either way.

  • Commission rates are not consulted when scoring, ranking or writing. Test results are recorded before any commercial arrangement is checked.
  • Providers that offer no affiliate programme are tested and recommended on identical terms — several of our recommendations pay us nothing.
  • We publish negative findings about companies that pay us. If that ends the relationship, so be it.
  • We do not sell links, guest posts, sponsored articles or placement in any list. Nothing on this site can be bought.
  • We hold no shares in, and take no advisory role with, any provider covered here.

2. How testing is done

Accounts are purchased anonymously at normal retail prices. We do not accept free or press accounts, because a provider that knows it is being tested can behave differently.

  1. Leak testing on Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android: DNS, IPv6 and WebRTC, with and without the kill switch, including deliberate tunnel failure.
  2. Speed testing from a fixed line at fixed times, baseline first, then each available protocol, at least ten runs per configuration, median reported.
  3. Feature verification — every claim we repeat is tested, not quoted from the provider’s own page.
  4. Document review — audit reports read in full, corporate ownership traced through registries, terms and privacy policies read to the end.
  5. Publication of the method, the raw figures and the date, so anyone can repeat or dispute the result.

Test results are a snapshot. Networks, ownership and policies change, and an article that has not been re-tested says so at the top.

3. Limits of what we publish

Everything here is general technical education. It is not legal advice, and it is not a security guarantee for your specific situation.

  • No tool makes you anonymous. A VPN moves trust from your ISP to a provider; it does not erase you, and combined with your account logins it usually identifies you anyway.
  • Legality varies. VPN use is restricted or illegal in some countries and on some networks. Checking the law that applies to you is your responsibility, not ours.
  • Threat models differ. Advice appropriate for avoiding advertising surveillance is not sufficient for someone facing a state adversary, and we are not equipped to advise the latter.
  • Self-hosting shifts responsibility. Running your own server means you are now the one who must patch it, rotate keys and secure it. A badly maintained personal VPN is worse than a decent commercial one.
  • Nothing here excuses illegal activity. We write about privacy as a normal civil expectation, not as a way to avoid consequences.

4. Accuracy and corrections

Errors are corrected as quickly as they are reported, and the change is dated in the article. If you find something wrong, please tell us via the contact page.

5. Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law, Fast VPN Services and its contributors accept no liability for any loss or damage resulting from use of, or reliance on, the information published here, including any security incident, data loss or service interruption.