A vast majority of users in India are using free VPN services, which are in effect not free as they often fund operations by selling user data. But the use of paid VPN services remains limited in India.
Mobile downloads of virtual private network or VPN apps in India grew by 405% to 57 million in the 12 months starting October 2018, when India banned hundreds of porn websites, according to data from Apple’s App Store and Google Play. VPNs allow users to mask their location and browse the internet more securely. It gives users online privacy and anonymity by creating a private network from a public internet connection.
