Reviews for Private Internet Access
Private Internet Access by PrivateInternetAccess
366 reviews
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14886314, 5 years agoDoesent work with FF 71.0 64 bit
Have been working very good until now
so if no fiks soon maybe its time to change provider - Rated 1 out of 5by Global_Saffer, 5 years agoStopped working, and gave me the excuse I needed to get away from PIA. Jump onto the reddit forum and learn about who they have become, and how they now do business. They should not be trusted with your private data.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14223411, 5 years ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15472299, 5 years agoWorked until a couple of days ago, now it's actually causing problems with my browsing and had to be disabled.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 13623553, 5 years agoSadly this extension does not work in Firefox Developer mode. The bad thing about this is that it fails silently. It shows a green icon but the VPN is not connected. Even tough you think you're safe, you're not. I already contacted the support but they only told me to use the desktop app. I always loved the extension because it was very convenient always being in a VPN while browsing w/o having to configure anything.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14689399, 5 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user, 5 years agoIt's an OK, add-on. It has some basic flaws that prevent me from wanting to use it. Whenever you setup a bypass rules in the settings for a certain site, you need to restart the browser before it takes affect. Also, it seems to get different servers than the desktop version of the app. Sometimes with different speeds. Also the app forces you to choose custom "content blocking" within Firefox's settings; rather than allowing you to choose something else.
If the devs can make it quicker to adjust to bypass rules in the settings, I would definitely be willing to change the review. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15305801, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15318059, 5 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Yan, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15282205, 6 years agoThe re-directoin and encoding of web site data works fine , unfortunately it has some annoying side effects , I was unable to log in to my local router and storage devices with this addon installed (even when it was toggled off) and the default size of firefox kept resetting to 50% of the available screen when I started it.
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 15260121, 6 years agoThe Windows client is excellent. The add-on causes site settings to be lost between tabs and between sessions.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Mark Cohen, 6 years ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by Firefox user 14367382, 6 years agoThe service itself if good, but the Firefox extension has never worked properly (though Chrome & variants work fine). All setting are lost upon closing the browser, forcing the user to reconfigure/login with every browser session.
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 15229424, 6 years ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15223614, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 15185663, 6 years ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Alex5000, 6 years agoIt works fine but the bypass rules are not working well. The only reason I opted to try this addon is because it offers per domain bypass that the VPN apps don't allow. Problem is Amazon still think I'm behind a vpn even when on the bypass list and I can't watch Prime video. I've tried everything but still can't watch Prime video without turning off the VPN manually, which defeats the purpose of this add-on frankly.
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 15168612, 6 years agoDifficult to understand and use..Not user friendly
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14791853, 6 years agoDoens't work and the customer service wont give an ETA for a fix.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Liam, 6 years agoUpdate July 13, 2020:
It's working again like before ☺👍
Update December 11, 2019:
Since the latest Firefox update, this addon doesn't work any longer for me. I don't like to give it 1 star rating but I tried troubleshooting myself. I gave it access to private browsing, reinstalled and also tried on a new Firefox profile. It simply won't work.
I like that it has a kill switch and offers many regions, including some handy privacy protection features. Along with Firefox's container tabs, it's a solid tool against trackers. It's not free from bugs but I notice that simply uninstalling the extension, restarting Firefox and reinstalling it fixed all my problems I've had with it so far. My last problem was missing regions but a reinstallation fixed it.