Five days free, no card
Online VPNs: what works in a browser tab
Half the confusion about VPNs comes from five different tools being sold under one name.
No card, no account. The key is cut and delivered in Telegram in about a minute.
- 60 sfrom the bot to a working key
- 5devices on one key
- 6locations, two of them in the UK
- 0logs kept
- London9 ms
- Manchester14 ms
- Dublin19 ms
- Amsterdam16 ms
- Madrid34 ms
- New York78 ms
Every location runs VLESS over Reality, which reads as ordinary HTTPS on a filtered network.
- Fits v2rayNG, Hiddify, V2Box, Streisand
- No app of ours to lose
- Five devices on one key
- Five days free, then a flat price per term
- No logs, no account
Five tools that get confused
- ▸VPN: an encrypted tunnel for the whole device. It hides your traffic from the local network and your address from websites.
- ▸Web proxy: a page that fetches other pages for you. It covers one tab and is not private, since the proxy's owner can read it.
- ▸Browser VPN or extension: nearly always a proxy for that browser alone. It needs permission to read your pages.
- ▸Smart DNS: it changes only where your lookups go, so that a streaming service sees another region. There is no encryption at all, and your provider still sees everything.
- ▸Private or incognito browsing: it stops your own device from keeping a history. The network sees exactly what it saw before.
And Tor
Tor Browser sends your traffic through three volunteer relays, so that no single party knows both who you are and what you are reading. For anonymity it is the strongest of the lot. It is also the slowest, and many everyday sites refuse it. It is the right tool for a journalist's source, and the wrong tool for catching up on a drama series.
Which one for which job
- ▸Hotel or train Wi-Fi: a VPN.
- ▸One blocked article on a library computer: a web proxy, for reading only.
- ▸A family filter on broadband that you do not control: a VPN.
- ▸Keeping your household's browsing out of a provider's connection records: a VPN.
- ▸Genuine anonymity: Tor, together with careful habits.
- ▸Hiding this week's present shopping from the family: incognito mode will do nicely.
Trying the real thing
Rules of thumb
- ✓If it lives in a tab, it is a proxy.
- ✓If it changes only the DNS, nothing is encrypted.
- ✓If it costs nothing and has no limits, ask what you are paying with.
- ✓If you log in somewhere, that site knows you whichever tool you use.
- ✓If a tool asks to read all your pages, find out who makes it before you agree.
Five free days, no card
Online VPNs: what works in a browser tab - 5 days free
Open the Telegram bot and get your personal VLESS key in about 30 seconds.
- Your key arrives in Telegram within a minute
- No card, no email address, no ID checks
- Fits a client you may already have
- Covers five devices
Nothing is charged, and no plaque renews by itself.
The ledger
We keep no ledger of you, only of the key
Royal Key holds three things: a Telegram chat, the key sent to it and the date that key expires. No account sits behind them, so there is nothing for a log to attach to, and we never ask for a name, an email address or a phone number. It is a modest claim, and we prefer it to pretending that no jurisdiction could ever reach us.
- No account, email address or phone number
- No record of the sites you visit
- No connection times or IP addresses kept
- No card details: you pay inside Telegram
- No renewal and no charge you did not choose
At the counter
Asked at the counter
Are online VPNs different from ordinary VPNs?
No. It is a loose phrase. A real VPN always needs a client on the device.
Is Smart DNS a VPN?
No. It redirects lookups and encrypts nothing.
Does incognito mode hide me from my provider?
No. It only stops local history from being saved.
Is a browser VPN enough?
For that browser's traffic, perhaps. Other apps are not covered.
Which is the most private?
Tor for anonymity, and a VPN with no logs for everyday privacy.
Can I try a full VPN without paying?
Yes. Five days, with no card.
Question not on the list?
The bot that cuts keys also answers questions. The setup section names the client to install.