With so many providers battling it out for the top spot in our best VPN rankings, it’s increasingly difficult for providers to stand out from the competition. The simplest way to do so is by cooking up new services and features – and an increasing number of VPNs are offering not just advert and malware blocking, but password managers, cloud storage, and identity theft protection.
One tool offered by a lot of premium providers is something called a SOCKS proxy. The most up-to-date version of this is SOCKS5. What does this mean? A SOCKS proxy is a handy way to spoof your location and conceal your real-world IP address. However, a proxy server doesn’t come with the same encryption you would find using a VPN.
