USA VPN: A Free US Server for an American IP Address

If you are outside the United States, an American IP address is what makes Netflix US, Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock and the American sports services behave as though you were sitting in Ohio.

If you are in the United States, the reasons are different. Your internet provider can see every site you open, and there is no federal law stopping it from selling that record. Sport is sold by region, so the games nearest to you are often the ones blacked out. And the Wi-Fi in airports, hotels and coffee shops is shared with everyone else on it.

Browsec runs as a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge, and as apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. You can connect to the US location even on our free plan.

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WHY PEOPLE CONNECT TO THE UNITED STATES

AMERICAN IP ADDRESS

Pick the United States and every site you open sees an American address instead of yours.

FREE, WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT

Connect to the US location on the free plan. No sign-up, no email, no card.

OUT OF YOUR PROVIDER'S VIEW

Your ISP sees an encrypted connection instead of a list of the sites you visited.

AES-256 ENCRYPTION

On airport, hotel and coffee shop Wi-Fi, nobody else on the network can read your traffic.

Is It Legal to Use a VPN in the United States?

Yes. Using a VPN is legal across the United States, and a great many people do. The more useful question is why so many of them started.

In 2017 Congress repealed the rules that would have required internet providers to ask permission before selling their subscribers' browsing histories. The rules never took effect, and no federal privacy law has replaced them since. In practice your provider can see every domain you open, and what it does with that record is largely its own business. Some states have written their own privacy laws; most have not.

That is the backdrop to the two things Americans actually notice:

Sport is sold by region. League services and regional sports networks black out the games closest to you, which is how people end up unable to watch the team they live beside.
More than twenty states now require age verification on adult sites, and in June 2025 the Supreme Court upheld the Texas version in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. Verification usually means handing a government ID or a face scan to a third-party checker, and a lot of adults would rather not do that.

What a VPN does about any of this is narrow, and worth stating plainly. It hides where your traffic goes from your provider, and it changes which region a site thinks you are in. It does not make anything legal that was not legal before, it does not get around checks tied to your account rather than your address, and streaming services do look for VPN traffic.

If you want to see what a site currently knows about you, check your IP address before and after you connect.

Get an American IP Address in 3 Easy Steps

Step 1

Install the Browsec Extension or App

Step 2

Click the Icon to Connect

Step 3

Choose the United States, Free and Without an Account

Works in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, iOS and Android

Browsec is also compatible with

Browsec for Chrome

Browsec for Firefox

Browsec for Edge

Browsec for Opera

Browsec for iOS

Browsec for Android

Browsec for Windows

Browsec for macOS

Browsec for Linux

Why Choose Browsec for the United States?

PRIVACY

Protect your data from sniffers and MitM attacks across any networks with AES-256 military-grade encryption.

ANONYMITY

Browsec does its best to hide your identity and lets you stay anonymous.

EASY SETUP

Everything you need is installed in just one click.

SECURE BROWSING

Browsec protects your traffic in Chrome, Firefox, or any other browser at all times.

MULTIPLATFORM ACCESS

Browsec works on Windows, Mac and Linux. The client is also available for Android-based devices, iPhones, and iPads.

TRUSTED VPN PROVIDER

More than 8,000,000 people already use and trust our VPN service.

Benefits

The single biggest reason people look for an American IP address is that so much is licensed for the United States and nowhere else:

Netflix, whose American catalogue is the largest of the lot
Hulu, which is not sold outside the country at all
HBO Max, which went back to its original name in 2025 after two years as Max
Peacock and Paramount+, both built around American networks and sport
Tubi and Pluto TV, free and ad-supported, with American catalogues that differ from the versions available elsewhere

Each of them checks where you are connecting from before it plays anything. An American address is what makes that check pass. You still need an account with the service, and cards issued outside the United States are not always accepted.

Inside the country the picture flips. The most common frustration is sport: league services and regional networks black out the games nearest to you, so the match happening across town is the one you cannot stream. Connecting through a server in another part of the country is how people work around it.

The quieter reason is the everyday one. Your internet provider keeps a record of every site you open, and public Wi-Fi in airports, hotels and coffee shops is shared with everyone else connected to it. Encryption is what turns both of those from a readable list into nothing worth reading.

All of it runs in the same extension for Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Edge, and in the apps for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android. More than 8,000,000 people already use and trust Browsec.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How to connect to the United States VPN?

Connecting to a US server takes about a minute:

Install the Browsec extension for Chrome, Firefox, Edge or Opera, or the app for Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS or Android.
Click the Browsec icon to switch it on. There is no account to create first.
Open the location list and choose the United States. It is available on the free plan.

Do I need a VPN in the United States?

Not to get around censorship, because there is none to speak of. The reasons here are quieter ones.

Your internet provider can see every site you open, and since the 2017 repeal of the broadband privacy rules there is no federal law stopping it from selling that record. Public Wi-Fi in airports, hotels and coffee shops is shared with everyone else on it. And sport is sold by region, so the games nearest to you are often the ones blacked out.

A VPN answers all three: your provider sees an encrypted connection, the network around you sees nothing readable, and sites see the region you connected from.

Can I change my IP location to the United States?

Yes. Choose the United States in Browsec and every site you open sees an American address instead of your own. The US location is available on the free plan, so no account is needed to try it.

Is using a VPN legal in the United States?

Yes. There is no federal or state law against using a VPN, and they are standard equipment in most American workplaces.

The obvious caveat still applies: a VPN changes what your provider can see, not what the law says. Anything illegal without one stays illegal with one.

Is using a free VPN for the United States a good idea?

Our free VPN includes the US location, so you can connect to an American server without an account, an email or a card. Install the extension, click the icon, choose the United States.

The one thing worth checking before you install any free VPN, ours included, is the privacy policy: what the provider stores, and for how long. Browsec Premium adds the rest of the location list when you need it.

Can I watch Netflix US, Hulu or HBO Max from abroad?

Connect to the US server before you open the site or the app, and the location check sees an American address. Netflix will not turn you away wherever you are, but the catalogue follows the address you connect from, and the American one is the largest.

Hulu, HBO Max, Peacock and Paramount+ are a different case: they are sold to American customers, so you need an account with the service, and a card issued outside the United States is not always accepted.

How does a VPN improve my privacy in the United States?

Without one, your internet provider can see every domain you open, and on shared hotel or airport Wi-Fi so can everyone else connected to it. Browsec encrypts your traffic before it leaves your device and replaces your IP address with the server's, so what goes out is an encrypted connection instead of a readable list of the sites you visited.