- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@programming.dev
I’m sharing this one because I’m curious what more knowledgeable people think about this one. Please take a peek at the article before joining the discussion, as my limited quote might have dropped useful information
The VPN industry runs on a promise. Pick almost any provider and the pitch is the same: “we don’t keep logs.” You hand over your entire internet connection and, in return, you get a pinky-promise that nobody is writing anything down.
For a lot of privacy-minded people, that promise stopped being good enough a while ago. A no-logs policy is only as honest as the company making it, and even an honest company can be hacked, subpoenaed, or quietly acquired.
Obscura VPN is trying to answer to that problem. Instead of asking you to trust its word, it splits the job across two independent companies so that neither one can tie your identity to your browsing. The first hop is Obscura’s own servers; the exit hop is run by Mullvad. a respected VPM company out of Sweden. Your traffic is end-to-end encrypted to Mullvad’s keys, so Obscura literally can’t read it, and Mullvad never sees who you are.



Plenty of alternatives like AirVPN
Air is a piracy vpn that literally can’t let people from the nation its based in use its service because the government would intervene.
Fucking hot stove ass service.
Air is also extremely complex to set up and use and has, not the most buggy app, but a strong contender for it. Users have to be careful to avoid creating an account or using a payment method with pii.
I use airvpn daily. I would never recommend it as an alternative to mullvad.