Revenues of overseas VPN services increased after Telegram's “blocking”

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The efforts of Roskomnadzor regarding the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia have not yet led to the result expected by the department. Thousands of websites suffered, domestic companies lost about 1 billion rubles, but the messenger continues to work.

One of the consequences of the actions of Roskomnadzor is an increase in the computer literacy of messenger users and a number of other services that have been affected by the blocking. In particular, VPN has a large number of new users who have learned to bypass locks. And since many VPNs provide their services for a fee, the income level of services of this kind has grown significantly.

In most cases, we are talking about foreign services. In particular, the American company TorGuard VPN has reported an increase in paid subscriptions from the Russian Federation by 1000% (no, this is not an extra zero) since April of this year. Information about this was provided by the head of the service, Benjamin Van Pelt, Kommersant writes . “With the beginning of blocking Telegram, we are seeing an increase in interest from the Russian business as well,” said Van Pelt.

His words are confirmed by the general director of another service, Golden Frog (VyprVPN service), Sunday Jokubaitis. The number of downloads of the VyprVPN mobile app has increased by 198%, more than 190% more accounts have been registered than the average for the same period of time. Website traffic increased by 36.19%. According to Jokubaitis, it all started with the start of locks in the Russian Federation.

Another company, CyberGhost, reports an increase in the number of users by more than 380%. Almost the same result is demonstrated by PrivateVPN.

In general, the growth of users and income is observed in foreign VPN. In Russia, things are not so rosy because Roskomnadzor is struggling with Russian services that do not comply with the law and do not restrict access to prohibited resources. Currently, Roskomnadzor is trying to deal with blocking bypass, restricting access to more than 80 VPN and proxy services. Most of them were created specifically to enter the Telegram.

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