{"id":224533,"date":"2026-03-17T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/87-of-vpn-privacy-policies-are-too-complex-for-the-average-american-and-thats-a-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:45:10","slug":"87-of-vpn-privacy-policies-are-too-complex-for-the-average-american-and-thats-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/87-of-vpn-privacy-policies-are-too-complex-for-the-average-american-and-thats-a-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"87% of VPN privacy policies are too complex for the average American \u2013 and that’s a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

87% of VPN privacy policies are too complex for the average American \u2013 and that’s a problem<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/computing\/vpns\/87-percent-of-vpn-privacy-policies-are-too-complex-for-the-average-american-and-thats-a-problem<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-03-17 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.tomsguide.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Let’s face it, nobody likes reading privacy policies. It’s about as far from a “fun” activity as you can get. But they contain important information about your personal data and how it’s used by websites, companies, apps, and services.<\/p>\n

For privacy tools like the best VPNs, these policies are doubly important. They detail how a VPN company protects your data, what it does and doesn’t collect, and how it upholds its no-logs policy \u2013 if it has one.<\/p>\n

But how many VPNs actually make these policies clear and easy to read? Unfortunately, the answer is not many.<\/p>\n

Tom’s Guide analyzed the privacy policies of some of the biggest names in the VPN industry and found that 87.5% were above the reading age of the average American. The number of sentences varied dramatically, and numerous VPNs had privacy policies with a significant number of sentences deemed “hard to read.”<\/p>\n

This is a problem, as it means millions of people are at a disadvantage when it comes to fully understanding how their data is used. Complex privacy policies can also put people off reading them entirely.<\/p>\n

At Tom’s Guide, we encourage people to read and understand all types of privacy policies, especially those of VPNs. So, let’s examine a bunch of VPN privacy policies and see which are the most readable.<\/p>\n

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