Honest VPN Guide is an English-language site about VPNs, password managers, and adjacent privacy tools. We publish dated comparisons, renewal-price honesty, and a public testing method — not synonym farms of “Best VPN for X.”

This page combines our About statement with an advertising disclosure. See also our Affiliate Disclosure.

Who operates this site (LiBrAi)

LiBrAi (Dutch sole proprietorship / eenmanszaak, KvK 42049145) runs Honest VPN Guide. Testing standards and commercial disclosures live on this site so readers can judge the work.

In practice:

Public contact uses info@honestvpnguide.com (see Contact below). There is no public contact form on the site.
Affiliate applications list the live site URL, this disclosure page, and LiBrAi ownership honestly — including other properties under the same operator when a network asks.
We don’t pretend to have a newsroom or a testing lab we don’t have.

The site is currently English-only.

Mission

Many VPN reviews lead with the intro discount and leave out what you pay at renewal. Speed graphics often appear without dates. “No logs” is stamped on almost every pitch.

Our job is narrower:

Show intro and renewal pricing whenever we recommend a paid plan.
Date our tests and keep empty cells empty until a real run exists.
Explain methods on How We Test so you can disagree with the weights, not guess them.
Cover strong products even when we cannot earn from them — starting with Mullvad’s no-affiliate policy.
Skip low-effort filler pages, and never suggest a VPN makes illegal downloading safe.

We’re a small site. What we can promise is that we will not hide the second-year price.

What we will not do

Sell a ranking slot.
Crown a permanent “#1 VPN” without current comparative data and a date.
Publish fake speed, leak, or streaming numbers.
Promise that a VPN makes copyright infringement safe or legal.
Cookie-stuff, cloak disclosure, or hide affiliate relationships.
Publish near-identical pages for every city or ISP without new test data.
Make up personal travel stories.
Invent an affiliate link for Mullvad or any vendor that does not run a program.

Editorial standards (pointer)

The full refusal list, test battery, retest cadence, and sample test-log template live on:

How We Test VPNs (and What We Refuse to Fake)

Our main VPN comparison:

NordVPN vs Surfshark vs Proton VPN: Prices, Policies and Features Compared

If a product page and the methodology page disagree, the methodology page wins until the product page is corrected.

Advertising / Affiliate Disclosure

This section explains how the site is funded and how any future affiliate links will be labelled. It is not legal advice.

How we make money

Honest VPN Guide is free to read. As of 13 November 2026 we are not in any affiliate program, and no link on this site earns us money. If that changes, we may earn a commission when you buy through some links: the vendor (or its network) pays LiBrAi when a qualified purchase or signup happens after you use our link.

Affiliate programs we may use, if a program is approved later, include, among others:

NordVPN / NordPass
Surfshark (and related suite products such as Incogni where offered)
Proton (VPN and related Proton products)
Malwarebytes
ExpressVPN and others

Rates, cookies, and approval status change. We do not treat a marketing-page percentage as a promise to readers. Commission details are a publisher concern; your price is the vendor’s checkout price.

Some articles may also mention tools we do not monetize. Being mentioned here does not mean we have an affiliate deal.

What that does and does not buy

Would: Help pay for hosting, tools, and time to retest.

Would not: Buy a higher position, a softer weakness section, or silence about renewal pricing.

If we would not recommend a product without an affiliate link, we will not recommend it with one. Rankings follow the method on How We Test, not the payout column in a publisher dashboard.

If a page ever uses affiliate links, it will say so near the top, before the first link, and point here for the full version.

Mullvad and non-affiliate coverage

Mullvad states publicly that it has no affiliate program, does not pay for reviews, and does not pay for links. We respect that.

We may still review or include Mullvad when it is relevant.
We will never invent a tracking URL, “partner code,” or disguised referral for Mullvad.
Ranking well with us without paying us is allowed. That is the point of the brand name.

Other non-partner tools may appear for education (e.g. built-in OS security, non-commercial privacy resources such as Privacy Guides). Linking to these resources does not mean we have a commercial relationship with them.

Multi-property honesty (LiBrAi)

LiBrAi may operate more than one media property. When an affiliate network asks which sites we run, we list them honestly rather than opening stealth duplicate accounts. Networks of thin copycat sites and near-duplicate review clones are against our own rules and against many partners’ rules.

Readers should judge each article on its method and date — not on how many domains share an operator.

Contact

Public contact: info@honestvpnguide.com

Please include:

URL of the article you mean
What you think is wrong (vendor, date, OS/client if it’s a test challenge)
Whether you are a reader, a vendor, or a network compliance contact

We do not take payment for changing a rank via email.

Privacy / related policies

Page	Where to find it
Privacy Policy	Privacy Policy
Cookies	See the Privacy Policy for how this site uses cookies
How We Test	Our testing method
This About + Disclosure	This page — who we are and how we get paid
Contact	Email `info@honestvpnguide.com` — no public contact form on the site
Legal Notice / Imprint	Legal Notice / Imprint — business details of LiBrAi

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