Growth Manager at CometVPN

Guoda Šulcaitė

Guoda is an all-round marketing professional with deep knowledge in the tech SaaS industry, particularly VPNs and proxies. She has worked on numerous projects and helped achieve impressive results through project management, content production, and SEO.

41 articles published by this author

Streaming & Bypass Guides

6 min read

8 Best Movies7 Alternatives for Free & Legal Streaming

Key takeaways:

  • Movies7 alternatives offer better safety, legality, and user experience.
  • Use trusted VPN tools and ad blockers to protect your online privacy.
  • Switch to free streaming platforms like Tubi or paid ones like Netflix for reliable access to movies and shows.
  • Movies7 once had a strong following and gave people access to free movies, free TV shows, and other popular content with no signup. It seemed simple, easy, and most importantly – free.

    But there’s a big problem now. Movies7 has become defunct and leads to other streaming websites that can be risky to use. Those sites can be unstable and filled with security threats. For these reasons, a lot of users are now searching for better user-friendly alternatives that still let them watch movies for free or affordably.

    After reading this article, you’ll understand the risks of using illegal free streaming platforms and find the best legal alternatives for both free and paid streaming platforms.

    Guoda Šulcaitė

    Cybersecurity & Privacy

    4 min read

    What Is The UK Online Safety Act and How It Affects You

    Key takeaways:

  • The Online Safety Act targets harmful content to protect children.
  • VPN use isn’t illegal, but using it to bypass age checks is not recommended.
  • While it puts a lot of pressure on content filtering, it also adds rules to protect freedom of speech.
  • The UK Online Safety Act is one of the biggest laws regarding digital safety passed in the last few years. It came from growing concerns about how online platforms manage harmful content that is easily accessible to minors.

    Parents, schools, and other institutions kept talking about how easy it became for kids to see violence, abuse, or inappropriate adult content on social media and the internet in general. Consequently, the UK government stepped in.

    Guoda Šulcaitė

    Cybersecurity & Privacy

    7 min read

    How to Know If Your Phone Is Hacked: 7 Warning Signs

    Key takeaways:

  • Sudden warnings, ads, messages, power usage or performance issues, and settings changes may signal your phone is hacked.
  • Phones can be hacked by attacks based on social engineering, such as phishing, and more sophisticated exploits requiring minimal human interaction.
  • It's crucial to immediately disconnect your phone from the internet, change all passwords, and remove suspicious files or apps.
  • Run a mobile security scan or run a full reset of the phone if nothing else helps.
  • Preventing phone hacks relies on updating your software, avoiding third-party app stores and public Wi-Fis, and being cautious with online links.
  • Realizing your phone has been hacked is much more than an inconvenience. From storing pictures of your cat to accessing your bank account and making purchases, we rely on smartphones for almost everything.

    The more you use your smartphone, the more important it is to know how to spot, fix, and prevent malware attacks. Most hacks on Android and iOS devices can be reversed, so once you suspect something, it's important to stay calm and take immediate action.

    Guoda Šulcaitė

    Streaming & Bypass Guides

    5 min read

    How to Change Chrome Proxy Settings: The Ultimate Guide

    A proxy server is an easy alternative to a VPN that can perform most of the functions of the latter. It’s a server that stands between your device and the destination server, taking your connection requests and forwarding them in your name.

    Destination servers in almost all cases see the proxy server as the originator of the request. As such, proxies are widely used in various, mostly business-related applications whenever privacy, security, location changing, and several other factors are at play.

    Guoda Šulcaitė

    VPN Guides & Tutorials

    4 min read

    How to Go Incognito on Any Browser (Step-by-Step)

    Key takeaways:

  • Incognito mode helps hide activity from your browser, but not from your ISP.
  • You can easily open an Incognito window in any browser using the menu or a keyboard shortcut.
  • Use a VPN with private browsing to keep your activity truly private.
  • Everyone has tried to secretly shop for a birthday gift online or look up some weird thing that shouldn’t remain on anyone’s browsing history. To do that without leaving a trail, you probably decided to go Incognito. If not, we’ll explain to you why you should.

    Here you will learn how to open a new Incognito window on all major browsers. We’ll show you the exact steps to take, explain that Incognito mode really does, and give you some tips for better privacy.

    Guoda Šulcaitė

    Cybersecurity & Privacy

    6 min read

    Password Entropy: Definition and How to Calculate It

    Password entropy is a key concept for creating a strong password. Expressed in bits of entropy, it gives us an objective measurement of how difficult it is to crack, guess, or brute-force attack passwords.

    We all know that strong passwords must be complex and include lots of special characters, numbers, lowercase, and uppercase letters. Understanding what password entropy is and how to calculate it helps create strong passwords you can remember but criminals struggle to crack.

    Guoda Šulcaitė