When you use F-Secure FREEDOME VPN, you may notice that you are unable to send email any more, although you can still read email normally. Email is typically sent via a protocol called SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). To prevent malicious users from using the mail servers as spam relays, virtually all Internet Service Providers […]
With F-Secure FREEDOME VPN, some ports are blocked for both the TCP and UDP protocols. F-Secure FREEDOME VPN allows virtually all of the network traffic to pass through. However, to increase security and prevent certain abusive behavior, such as spamming, some ports are blocked for both the TCP and UDP protocols. Blocked TCP ports: 1-19 […]
A feature which blocks internet access when FREEDOME VPN connection is disrupted or being established. F-Secure FREEDOME VPN includes a killswitch feature to prevent accidental leakage of traffic to the internet. Should the VPN connection between the FREEDOME VPN client and the server drop for any reason, for example due to a short network outage […]
This topic provides information about the trusted WiFi networks in FREEDOME VPN. With FREEDOME VPN, you can mark your favorite local networks as trusted to allow connections to other devices, such as media players, while VPN is turned on. If you have enabled the automatic WiFi protection for untrusted WiFi networks, FREEDOME VPN will not […]
This topic explains why FREEDOME VPN is not allowing you to access a site or service. Most likely the site or service that you are trying to access is either malicious or is trying to track you. Some sites prevent their use altogether if they are not able to set up the tracking first. If […]
This topic describes how the tracking cookies and sites are blocked with FREEDOME VPN. F-Secure Labs maintains a database of tracking and advertisement networks in the F-Secure Security Cloud. Our labs are staffed round-the-clock ensuring this database is always up-to-date. The database tags tracking and analytics services so that FREEDOME VPN blocks the requests completely. The […]
Tracker Mapper allows you to temporarily log visited web sites to see how they are tracking you. To see how you are being tracked, start a 24-hour log as follows: Open the app. Swipe the screen up and tap Tracking attempts blocked. Select Show Tracker Mapper. Select Start. Tracker Mapper is now running. You can stop logging at […]
You can see how you are being tracked with FREEDOME’s Tracker Mapper. Tracker Mapper allows you to temporarily log visited web sites to see how they are tracking you, as well as malicious sites blocked. FREEDOME never logs your data. However, you can choose to do so yourself by using Tracker Mapper to record your […]
The browsing protection and tracking protection features won’t work with Chrome’s Lite mode turned on, nor with Opera Mini. Google Chrome’s Lite mode (previously known as Data Saver) compresses web pages to make them load faster and to create less data traffic. Opera Mini works in a similar fashion. This prevents FREEDOME VPN’s browsing protection […]
This topic explains why your IP address may seem to be in a different country than expected. With F-Secure FREEDOME VPN, you can select the location through which all your network traffic is routed. For example, if you are located in Germany, but select Finland as the virtual location in FREEDOME VPN, all your traffic […]