HideMy.Name Review 2026

During our deep-dive audit of HideMy.Name, the standout infrastructure feature is its Stealth protocol, which encapsulates OpenVPN traffic inside an obfuscated TLS handshake designed to defeat signature-based VPN detection. The server fleet of 1,100+ nodes spans 80 countries, with the majority hosted in Tier-2 and Tier-3 co-location facilities. All protocols — WireGuard, OpenVPN UDP/TCP, IKEv2/IPsec, and Stealth — enforce AES-256-CBC with a 4096-bit RSA key exchange and HMAC-SHA256 data authentication. The company operates under a strict no-logs policy covering connection timestamps, session durations, source IPs, and bandwidth consumption.

The Split Tunnelling implementation lets you route specific applications through the VPN while keeping others on your direct ISP connection. Unlike basic whitelist-only implementations, HideMy.Name supports both inclusion and exclusion modes — you can either specify which apps use the VPN, or specify which apps bypass it, giving precise control over traffic routing without a blanket policy that can slow down latency-sensitive local applications like banking apps or smart home hubs.