PrivacyPro SmartVPN & Firewall

I’ve been a yearly subscriber for three years and find the app to be remarkably useful, especially in today's digital environment of pervasive tracking. The Smart VPN protects without slowing down browsing and, I find the Tracker Blocking to be far more comprehensive than on other firewall apps. I often compare it’s blocking with the other ones and the difference is night and day. Reading through the negative reviews, I found many complaining about the app not blocking ads, which isn't what it's function is. Disconnect, the parent company, has been actively developing security products for browsers over many years and that experience is evident in this App. The Devs have continued to improve the app through the years and I'm confident they'll continue to do so. They have 2 other ios apps but this is the original and the one I find most useful. There's also a full fledged VPN along with a tracker blocking function but, for me, it's overkill. I prefer the selectivity of the smart VPN. Their newest app is just the tracker Blocker without any VPN and, that by itself may be fine for many people. All in all, I think the cost of a yearly subscription (for multiple devices on the same account) is very reasonable, considering the level of protection and peace of mind this app provides. Being an early adopter, I have a lower yearly subscription than the current price. I'm hoping the Devs continue to honor the lower price for us early supporters ;) This review may seem like an ad for the app but, I genuinely wanted to share my experience and appreciation after several years of using it.

For myself I find this app to be very unique and blocking everything for me! I have tried and paid for other apps that did not even come close to what this app does. I thank the developers for putting this app out for all of us to use. I bow down to the hard work they are putting into this app every day to make it better for you and myself! The updates that take place seems to always for myself make the app better and better! That’s hard to believe because for myself it’s always been a unique outstanding design app that I willingly give a 5 star rating! Yes it’s not free but I for myself have always found free apps don’t work out down the road! Download the app today now I don’t feel you will be sorry! (Really) so I wanted to say thanks again to the developers for such a great unique app! I wanted privacy protection more than just hiding where I am at and I feel this app does that for me. Thanks

Works w/o problem on a 9.7” iPad Pro, iOS 12 ** Please add landscape mode for iPads with keyboards. Fast! ** Allow me to group trackers by website/app and to check/uncheck a whole group or individual elements within. This is critical. If possible, please indicate which connections are initiated by each website/app or iOS. Web Browser trackers (Ghostery, AdBlock) inform what site generates which specific trackers. When I first used (Disconnect iOS), I spent way too long figuring out which element comes from each website/app and took forever deciding which element I might have blocked had killed a website (though it’s eye-opening HOW many domains each app/website initiates uses to grab info from my computer). ** Remember which trackers I’ve blocked, and allow me to check/uncheck my custom list so that I don’t lose them all. I needed to reset my custom list, so I had to delete the Disconnect app, redownload it, start my custom list over — to get the one website I’d messed up working again. ** Why can’t individuals know what specific info about themselves/their computer that was passed to a tracker/website and then to which other data brokers/companies, etc. their information was probably further transferred (i.e., as in recent the Washington Post column). Given Disconnect’s philosophy, this seems a logical step to me. ** Can you create a Wiki for users to establish a library of tracker and domain definitions/explanations? Many domains should be easy to define: all the Akamai domains, etc. Thanks for your good work and for reading this!