Use CyberGhost VPN on Mac OS: Here's how
You can also use CyberGhost, the well-known provider of VPNs, with Mac OS X. This allows you to surf the Internet anonymously via a proxy server and protect your surfing behavior from prying eyes. We'll show you how to set up a virtual network on your Mac here.
Install CyberGhost on Mac OS X.
With the free CyberGhost you create a so-called virtual private network, or VPN, on your computer. Such a network ensures that your identity is blurred on the Internet and is no longer easy to track. To do this, it hides your IP address, which virtually represents your identity on the Internet, and replaces it with any other. At the same time, the tool offers the possibility to disguise your country of origin via a proxy server.
- Download CyberGhost VPN and save the file on your Mac.
- After the download, install the tool by opening the DMG file. Drag the CyberGhost icon onto the app folder.
- Now you can find CyberGhost in your program overview. After the start, the program asks you to install a small additional tool. Agree to that.
- CyberGhost is already installed and you can start setting up the network. Read how in the next section.
How to set up a VPN with CyberGhost
In addition to anonymous surfing, the use of a VPN has other advantages. For example, you can use a foreign proxy to bypass the YouTube country block. You can also call up other services that are otherwise only available in the USA via an American proxy server.
- After starting CyberGhost, a country map opens showing your actual location and your actual IP address.
- To use a different server, click on the "Simulated Country" button at the bottom left. A few countries are available in the free version, but the USA is one of them.
- At the bottom right you can also choose any IP address. If this is done, click on the button in the middle and start the encryption.
- CyberGhost will then ask you to install an additional tool. Agree to that. As a user of the free version, you may have to wait for a free server space, but this shouldn't take long. After waiting, you will be connected directly to the proxy server.
- To deactivate encryption, you have to confirm the installation of the additional tool one last time. The connection is then disconnected and you surf again with your own identity.
- By the way: We have also put together an overview of the best proxy tools that you can activate directly in your browser.
- We explain in another article how exactly a VPN works.
