VPN Proxy Master Review

Here’s a table showing all the information that VPN Proxy Master logs:

Ever since Lemon Clove acquired VPN Proxy Master, we’ve seen some improvements to its logging policy. It used to log your IP address and connection timestamps without aggregating or anonymizing the data at all.

Now VPN Proxy Master saves data mentioned in the table above, but “abstracts it” in order to maintain its service. Some VPNs do need to save certain data points, like your username, passwords, and payment information, to maintain a service.

But we’ve seen many other VPN maintain their service without requiring to hand over so much data. We’re still uncomfortable with the fact that it logs your internet service provider and the location of the VPN server you connect to.

But VPN Proxy Master doesn’t keep the worst kinds of logs (activity logs), such as the websites or services you access when using the VPN and timestamps that can identify specific users.

Importantly, we’d like to see VPN Proxy Master conduct an independent audit of its logging policy and app security, to ensure that all data is being properly aggregated and deleted.

Free Version Allows Advertiser Tracking

In its Privacy Policy, VPN Proxy Master openly states that anyone using its free service may be subject to third-party tracking. Some of its advertising partners include: Facebook, AdMob, UnityAD, Vungle, and Smaato.

These companies can “set and access their own cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies on our services.”

It also states that VPN Proxy Master shares aggregated data points it collects with these advertising partners.

In summary, a a great number of free VPNs, including VPN Proxy Master, end up making their money back by selling on your data and giving advertisers permission to track you.

Who Owns VPN Proxy Master?

VPN Proxy Master has a complex corporate structure behind it. The company now in charge is Lemon Clove Pte. Limited, but it used to be Innovative Connecting PTE. Limited.

For all intents and purposes, these are the same company. They even have identical websites.

Research by Security Affairs showed the same email address registered both websites, as well as the websites for Turbo VPN, VPN Robot, VPN Monster, and VPN Snap. Snap Master VPN is also the same app as VPN Proxy Master, just with a different name.

There’s not a lot of information offered on these websites, but Lemon Clove is based at 8 Marina View, #42-099, Asia Square Tower 1, Singapore.

But the director of Lemon Clove/Innovative Connecting is Danian Chen, a Chinese national described by Fortune China as “one of the most influential young leaders in China.” Chen is the Founder and CEO of Linksure, which launched the very successful WiFi Master Key app, and he is one of the richest men in China.

This looks very suspicious. To be a successful business or businessman in China you typically have to fully co-operate with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese military.

All Connected Co. is listed as the developer of VPN Proxy Master, and is a subsidiary of Innovative Connecting.

All Connected Co. is also based in Singapore, but our VPN investigations revealed that, like Innovative Connecting, it also has links to mainland China.

Singapore is a partner in an intelligence coalition called SIGINT Seniors Pacific. This also includes India, South Korea, and Thailand. It is led by the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA), making it an extension of the US surveillance apparatus.

We recommend opting for a VPN service headquartered in a country that has no legal claim on your personal information, and doesn’t engage in extensive state snooping.

We didn’t detect any DNS or IP leaks while testing VPN Proxy Master, which is encouraging.

The details of its encryption and security protocols are hard to find, but VPN Proxy Master references OpenVPN within its website FAQs.

This is good news, as OpenVPN is the security standard we like to see.

We contacted VPN Proxy Master to find out more. It replied by confirming it uses OpenVPN and AES-256 encryption. This is the industry-standard level of security you should expect from any good VPN.

However, that’s all the good we have to say about it, because VPN Proxy Master has absolutely no additional security features. Its app offers no options or details at all regarding customizable features or encryption settings.

There is no kill switch, which we consider an essential feature for any safe VPN service. Without it, you risk exposing your true IP address if your internet connection drops.

Our free VPN investigations update also detected invasive functions and malware within VPN Proxy Master. Make no mistake: this is an unsafe and dangerous VPN that you should avoid.

If you want to use VPN Proxy Master to protect your device, beware that you may well end up putting yourself at greater risk.

VPN Proxy Master delivers speeds far below average. Check out the results here:

As our manual speed test data shows, VPN Proxy Master is a very slow VPN. Using our 100Mbps internet connection, we recorded an average 16% drop in speeds when connecting to international servers.

Even when connecting to local servers in the US, we were only able to achieve speeds up to 93Mbps on a 100Mbps baseline connection.

These speeds simply aren’t good enough for watching videos, gaming, or any medium-to-high intensive activity. At the bare minimum, it might be able to load simple web pages depending on your own internet speeds.

Awful Ping Times

In our 2023 recent speed tests, we saw ping times jump up to 6ms when connected to a local server in the US and 55ms when connected to Canada.

We simply do not recommend VPN Proxy Master for online gaming. There are many VPNs designed for online gaming, that have better download speeds and lower ping times available.

VPN Proxy Master advertises itself as a VPN for streaming. However, our most recent tests found the VPN did not work to unblock or stream Netflix on either of its five US servers.

Its single server option on iOS means you can’t access any popular streaming services outside of your home country.

Since the Android version of VPN Proxy Master removed its UK server users can no longer access BBC iPlayer, either. This is a great shame as it has worked with British TV for some time.

However, its slow speeds and unreliable customer support mean it’s still not a very good VPN for streaming.

Torrenting isn’t permitted on any of VPN Proxy Master’s free servers.

There’s no explanation as to why this is, but users that attempt any sort of P2P activity while connected to the VPN risk having their account deactivated.

Want a free VPN that actually lets you torrent? We’ve listed the very best free VPNs for torrenting here.

Without any obfuscation tools, it’s highly likely that VPN Proxy Master won’t work in China.

It’s pretty open about this, informing users in its website FAQ that:

“We’re sorry to inform you that our product is currently not available in China due to some policy reasons.”

It’s safe to assume that this will be the case with VPN Proxy Master in any other country with censored internet.

If you’re traveling to, or live in one of these countries, we’ve listed VPNs that work reliably in Turkey and the best VPNs for China.

To contact support you have one option: head to ‘Feedback’ in the app.

You can then send an email to the address vpnproxymaster-support@lemonclove.net.

We sent an email and got a response two-days later from ‘Master VPN Customer Service Department.’

Support answered our query with minimal fuss, to its credit. But it was just too slow to be useful.

There are no troubleshooting tips or in-depth FAQs. It does appear to have ‘Live chat’ option on its website, but nothing happens when you select it.

VPN Proxy Master’s support is lacking.