I've tested it out and though you have to expect some slowdown due to passing through more links in the chain, this is ridiculous. Normal webpages load like it was back in the 28.8K modem days, but I'm on a 1 GB fibre connection.

Tunnelbear has become so painfully slow that you can't even use it. Getting on a streaming service somewhere became a matter of trying again and again until you might get lucky and hit an IP which wasn't (yet) blocked. It worked fairly well for a few months after which many content providers got wise to VPNs and started blocking IPs.

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