How to Unlock the Site with a VPN

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8 min readFeb 13, 2020

Are you no longer able to access P2P Guru website, enjoy your ad-free multimedia content and receive rewards for your activity?

Possibly, certain jurisdictions, regions, and Internet Service Providers (ISP) might decide to block or restrict your access to P2P Guru. If you never had any problem entering P2P Guru but suddenly, you are no longer able to do it, it is likely the case that our site is blocked in your area.

Don’t worry, there is still an easy way to bypass the block.

How?

VPN.

VPN (Virtual Private Network) allows you to create a secure connection to another server on the Internet. It enables you to connect to remote servers around the globe and helps you to change your IP address and mask your real connection.

VPNs can be used both, as a software client running on your desktop or as a mobile app on your smartphone.

You can also use some VPNs completely free of charge and in this guide, we will show you how.

But first…why should you even bother?

There are a few key reasons why:

Bypass Internet restrictions

VPN helps you surpass certain geographical and regional restrictions and unlock websites that might be blocked by your country, region or Internet provider. You can, therefore, use a VPN to connect to a distant server located in another country and then again, from this distant server, connect to the site that is restricted by your original IP address and bypass the block.

As an example, you could use a VPN to get over the Great Firewall of China and unlock the sites and platforms that are blocked by the Chinese government but popular in the rest of the world.

Similarly, you can also unlock P2P Guru even if it’s currently blocked in your region.

Protect yourself while torrenting

VPN is especially popular and praised amongst the people who like to use torrents and download files with these peer-to-peer networks.

Torrenting could be a slippery slope. It isn’t itself illegal, but downloading copyrighted material is.

The copyright laws could be quite ambiguous and greatly vary for every country. What is considered to be completely legal in one country might be illegal in another — therefore, it is better to protect yourself rather than finding yourself unwittingly on the wrong side of the law.

Besides, if you are downloading copyrighted material via torrent, your ISP (Internet Service Provider) has no trouble finding out about it as it is very easy for them to track your Internet activity nowadays.

To protect yourself, a VPN encrypts all your traffic before it leaves your computer. This means that your ISP cannot monitor your activity anymore. They may be able to see that you are using a VPN, but that’s all they can see concerning your Internet activity.

Bye-bye, big brother!

Besides, in case your VPN connection gets suddenly disconnected while torrenting, most VPN providers offer extra safety features such as kill switch. A kill switch makes sure to automatically disconnect you from the Internet until your VPN connection is restored — making sure that your IP address is not exposed by an accident.

Anonymity and privacy

Internet surveillance is at its peak, your data is now the most precious commodity that many companies can profit from immensely.

If you value your privacy, a VPN is a useful tool just for browsing the Internet in general. It gives you more anonymity on the Internet and helps you stay protected from trackers aiming to spy on you and sell your information to other third parties.

A VPN re-routes all your internet traffic through a server in a location of your choosing, which changes your IP address to the one used by thousands of other people. This adds a significant layer of anonymity and makes it much more difficult for anyone to track you.

Beware though, the level of anonymity depends also on your VPN provider as some of them are more reliable in this is aspect than others.

How to choose a VPN?

Nowadays, there is plenty of VPN service providers that you can choose from. If you search a little bit on the Internet, you can also find lots of promo codes that will grant you significant discounts or subscription-free service periods for some time. Many VPN providers also offer a free trial period for the first month so you can test their VPN client/app and decide if you want to stick with them.

Anyway, most of these VPN companies will charge for their services each month as much as a cup of Starbucks coffee would cost you. This is not a big investment considering all the benefits for your online security, privacy, and anonymity.

Therefore, picking your VPN provider depends on your preferences and whether you value a cheap monthly subscription over advanced security features and a higher number of accessible servers that you can connect to.

We would suggest choosing a VPN provider with no-logs policy.

What is a no-log policy?

Some VPN services will keep detailed information on their users. The most private VPNs keep zero logs. That means that after you finish a VPN session, there is no connection logs or usage logs stored anywhere. Everything that you did online is completely unrecorded, including the time you connected and what VPN server you connected to.

Some of these no-logs VPN providers are:

NordVPN — starting at just $2.99 per month
ExpressVPN — $8 per month (30-day money-back guarantee)
PrivateVPN — $3.82 per month (30-day money-back guarantee)
VyprVPN — $3.75 per month

Another way to achieve even more anonymity with your VPN is to ensure that the VPN knows as little about you as is possible. Some VPNs, therefore, allows you to pay your subscription with Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies completely anonymously with no billing information.

On the other hand, if you would rather want to find a free or cheap VPN service, some companies offer free basic plans — just keep in mind that these options will be limited in its capabilities compared to the paid subscriptions.

Some of these free VPN services are:

ProtonVPN — free plan, unlimited data but only 5 virtual servers available
Free VPN built-in feature in Opera — unlimited data
Windscribe — 10 GB of free data per month

How to use a VPN?

Using a VPN is very simple and most VPN providers follow the same procedure.

We will explain how to get a free VPN with ProtonVPN that offers a completely free basic plan that allows you to connect to 5 virtual servers worldwide and VPN built-in feature in Opera that also supports free connection to virtual servers worldwide.

1. Select a free subscription plan on ProtonVPN

2. Choose the client version

3. Download and install the client

4. Run and Sign up into the client

(or create a new account)

5. Choose the location of a server you would like to connect to and click “Connect”

Yep, it’s that simple, 5 steps and your free ProtonVPN client is running on your desktop.

There is also another way to have a free VPN service if you use Opera as your Internet browser. Opera offers a free built-in VPN feature. In this way, you do not need to download any other extensions and clients or pay for subscriptions as your native VPN client is right inside your browser.

To activate this feature, all you need to do is to enable VPN in your Opera Settings.

After this, a VPN button will appear in your address bar. By clicking on this button, you can view your IP address, change your location and review statistics.

This VPN feature is quite basic and limited but will be enough to unblock websites, hide your IP and protect yourself while connected on public Wi-Fi.

Let’s sum it up…

With a VPN, you can:

Connect to distant servers and access sites that are blocked in your region
Torrent safely as your ISP is not able to track your online activity
Achieve more privacy and anonymity on the Internet and protect yourself against trackers that pray on your information

VPN is beneficial to you for multiple reasons, it is quite cheap and there are even some free VPN services such as ProtonVPN or Opera built-in VPN.

If P2P Guru happens to be blocked in your region but you want to access the site, you can still achieve this with a VPN.

This guide aims to show you that accessing VPN is nowadays very easy and (if you are not too demanding) could be also completely free of costs.

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