Karl Finders, Computer Weekly, Millions in the Arab world use VPNs to overcome restrictions and bandwidth throttling “The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has the highest VPN download rate in the world, as a proportion of population, with a total of 4.27 million downloads made in the UAE, the equivalent of 43% of the total population, according to the Atlas VPN research.
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