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Private Settings
The privacy settings of your group (Public/Private) tell you who can see your group's content and its members. In a Private group, only members can see who's in the group and what they post. In a Public group, anyone can see who's in the group and what they post, including non-members.
Discoverability of the group (e.g. finding your group in search both on and off Facebook, group suggestions) is a separate toggle. And, admins can make their group discoverability either Hidden or Visible.
Your privacy settings can be found in your Group’s admin tools under “Privacy”
Previous privacy settings are have been changed to be called:
What Private and Public each mean for your members and other Facebook users:
You can find your privacy settings in your group in your Admin Tools under Group Settings
Privacy can help determine the type of content and members you’d like to be a part of your community.
Consider your privacy settings based on the type of content and subject matter in your community.
For more on how to determine what setting is right for you, check out “Choosing the right privacy for your group”.
Steps to find your group’s Privacy Settings:
1. Go to your group, open Admin Tools and open your Settings
2. Under Basic Group Info, click the Privacy button
3. Decide if you would like your group to be public or private
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by Martin Brinkmann on September 26, 2016 in Internet - Last Update: April 04, 2017 - 20 comments
All Private Internet Access settings explained
The guide provides explanations for all settings and features of the Private Internet Access client for the Windows operating system.
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Private Internet Access is a popular VPN provider. The company has a strict no-logging policy which have been verified in court this year.
Customers may download one of the available clients for their operating system. The Windows client ships with a list of features that you may enable to improve your privacy and security while being connected to one of the company servers.
The following guide lists and explains all settings that the Windows client version of Private Internet Access provides currently.
We have used the latest version of the client, version 0.65, for that. We will update the guide when features change. If you notice that before us, let us know in the comments so that we can update the article.
You can open the settings by right-clicking on the Private Internet Access icon in the Windows system tray area.
Please note that you can only access the settings if you are not connected to the VPN at that time. If you are, you need to disconnect first before you can do so.
The client uses three configuration pages of which one, simple, is not of much use.
The advanced settings page, which you see on the screenshot above, lists several options that you want to check out and configure.
While it is up to you and your requirements what to enable on the settings page, it is usually a good idea to enable all features but PIA MACE and Debug mode.
A click on encryption displays options to set various encryption related parameters.
The selection depends largely on your requirements. Want maximum protection? Select AES-256, SHA-256 and RSA-4096. Want all speed and no safety at all? Pick None, None and ECC-256k1.
The default recommendation is AES-128, SHA-1 and RSA-2048.
The client displays warning if you choose none for data encryption or data authentication, or when you chose ECC for Handshake.
May I surf on this article to ask a VPN related question? I don’t understand how VPNs manage DNS requests. Do they have their own DNS servers, do I/can I/should I keep my own DNS servers? For instance, I use DNSCrypt with a choice of several encrypted DNS servers. From there on how does this manage with a VPN? Thanks :)
Tom that depends entirely on how the VPN is configured. You can test VPN connections for leaks on services like this one: https://www.dnsleaktest.com/ Good info on the topic is available here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/13900/if-i-use-a-vpn-who-will-resolve-my-dns-requests
I had an use the DNSLeakTest but I make mine your link to StackExchange’s dedicated question/answer. Thanks!
Martin, do you use a VPN on your Android phone? If so, do you use it all the time or just when connecting to “unknown” Wi-Fi networks? Which one do you use? I’m asking because recently I did some research to find a suitable VPN service for my phone in that particular use case (connecting to a public Wi-Fi spot). My requirements were relatively simple: – It had to be free (obviously with some monthly traffic limits) – It didn’t have to show me any ads – It had to offer the option of selecting which apps on my phone would and wouldn’t be routed through the VPN when the VPN service was active. For example, I don’t care if a malicious hacker intercepts my traffic when I stream a YouTube video, but I do want my email and banking app to be fully protected by the VPN. And a video stream would use a lot of the monthly allowed traffic of the free service. – ideally, the Android VPN app would had to be smart enough to auto-engage when I connect to a public, insecure Wi-Fi network.
The best that I could find was FinchVPN, which offers a limited set of free servers and a generous 3 GB / month limit for free accounts. And it allows you to select which apps are routed through the VPN.
Do you, or any reader, know of a better VPN app for Android?
I hardly use my phone when I’m not in an environment that I have control over. I don’t use WiFi outside.
The only exception is when I’m traveling. Then, I’m using a VPN all the time when connected to the hotel WiFi, but will usually buy a SIM card for activity outside (which is limited to things I require such as looking up information on a map, translation..).
@city_zen: Really, avoid free VPNs. A lot of them are probably doing sketchy things with your data to pay their bills.
But I have a follow-up to your question, in case anyone has an answer: Is there any way we can use a VPN and firewall at the same time on an Android device WITHOUT ROOTING? It seems the answer is “no”, because all the no-root firewall apps apparently work by pretending to be VPNs and using the device’s VPN infrastructure. But I’d love to know of a workaround. There are so many apps trying to secretly get internet access these days… I don’t like the idea of turning the firewall off even temporarily.
PIA has a Android VPN app. Cool thing about PIA is that you have up to 5 devices sharing your VPN account. I have been a loyal user for 4 years now… haven’t had issue at all!
Yes, but that doesn’t solve the problem I outlined.
PIA does seem like a good VPN though. The tinfoil hat wearer in me just hopes it’s not an elaborate ruse by the NSA to get easier access to everyone’s data. I always worry when a security solution gets so popular that everyone treats it like the default option.
A little late but hey, If you use android get orbot and enable transparent proxying for specific apps, to go through th TOR network, thereby being very anonymous and private/secure. This may require a rooted device I’m not sure, but you’d be helping the anonymous community out just by being on it. Using banking apps and regular browsing is great for this, just don’t torrent anything on the tor network or your ip will be leaked (a big no no).
For the cheapskate there’s VpnGate + Openvpn client (Windows, Android, Linux, etc) ;)
first: I don’t have sensitive information, nor personal. social accounts have no identifying info besides my first and last name, not even a photo.
second: VPN’s encrypt the information from your computer to the VPN server only. example: data packet 123456 tries to leave the computer, the VPN makes it 561342, but when it reaches the VPN server, the packet needs to be decryped again to 123456. just monitor what comes out from the VPN server and you know what users are sending/receiving, despite you can’t know to what person the information belongs to. if you are something like NSA, they just want information, they don’t care who are you LOL
third: they can leave your internet really really slow… I’ve used VPN’s like Hotspot Shield, that made my internet impossible to gaming…
Fourth: most of the browsers based on the chromium project use Device ID’s, which are unique identifiers of your audio/video card, microphone, cd player… websites may request this information – like movies sites – where chromium based browsers may than change the identifier into a hash, and than sites may use it as fingerprint – whithout you knowing – and this hashes may not be changed for months.
bonus: if you have webRTC activated on your browser (it comes activated by default), it is leaking your Real IP address, rather you use VPN or not, so besides the company bugging the VPN server knowing what are you doing, using a webRTC leak test they also know who you are and where you live. You can’t deactivate webRTC on chromium (chrome, Opera, Vivaldi (despite this one shows the option, you can’t turn it off) and all chromium based browsers)but there are extensions that grab the information sent by webrtc and block it from being sent… actually the only one I know that allows to activated and deactivate is Firefox and you need to go deep to the about:config screen.
so, why use a VPN? I mean, I have one installed, but it’s a free VPN just to access blocked sites my government blocked, like torrentfreak or ThePirateBay. it’s the only thing a VPN is useful: accessing blocked sites. VPN’s cover a hole, but there are 100 more uncovered. if you think you are protected using a VPN, think twice… you blocked the most obvious hole, just that.
Martin: why do you recommend NOT enabling the PIA-MACE feature?
Because you have no control over the feature unless I’m mistaken.
Thanks Martin for this brief overview. I use PIA and I’ve been very happy with their service. Even with all the features enabled, I only experience a minor slowdown, typically less than 10% of normal bandwidth. Frequent DNS and IP leak testing always shows it’s working perfectly. It’s just a nuisance that I can’t leave it on all the time if I want to use Netflix or Craigslist. In order to use those sites, I must disconnect. Otherwise, very pleased with PIA.
I’m wondering how to use their port forwarding feature. So far I’ve had no luck setting it up or finding further information about how that works. Could someone direct me to some further reading on proper configuration and use of port forwarding through a VPN (specifically PIA if possible)?
It appears that PIA has not solved issues w use of their product on non-admin accounts in Windows, is this correct? This seems like a flaw given that good practice would exclude use of the admin account for much internet search and surf activity.
>> Connection type: Select UPD or TCP as the connection type. Default is UDP.
Haha, you’ve got occasional acronym dyslexia Martin. Welcome to the club :)
I use PIA also and thought that I was happy and secure with it. I checked the DNS leak check and it said I was good, however, I just found out that if I mistype a url, my ISP’s search page comes up with suggestions for site similar to the the mistyped URL. That is very disconcerting! I don’t understand how they are aware of my url requests if there is not a DNS leak.
Are you using your providers DNS? If you are, then that is how.
Should we use another DNS server – is there one from PIA to ensure this does not happen?
According to this support page ( https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/client-support/ ), PIA uses its own DNS servers when you are connected to the VPN.
I suggest you run the test on IP Leak to find out whether your IP or DNS leaks when you are connected to the VPN.
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