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Mullvad has partnered with Obscura VPN (www.mullvad.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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First I'm hearing of ObscuraVPN at least, but it does seem to be a very new player in the market. However from reading through their website and Github. This service does look very promising! Though it is slightly more expensive than Mullvad.

Anyone had the chance to test their service yet? Does it seem interesting to you? Let's discuss.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It does seem interesting,
but I remain skeptical.

This means putting your trust in Obscura, since they're the 1st hop, receiving your data without additional encryption, a new player, who yet has to prove that they're trustworthy.

Sure their Github may show great software, but that doesn't mean we can see which software they might additionally install on their servers.

Meanwhile Mullvad has already been proven to be trustworthy through the best possible review any VPN company can receive, being: Server seized by the feds, but zero useful info retrieved by them.

Which proves they back up their claim of being a No-Log VPN.

Due to this I trust Mullvad,
and don't have any issues with sending them my data.

But I can't put the same faith in Obscura yet, not before they receive a similar "review".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Server seized by the feds, but zero useful info retrieved by them.

The gold standard.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

First time seeing a service support Nostr public keys instead of email.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It is interesting but it also does not inspire much confidence in this service since anyone who's used Nostr knows exactly what and who it's for.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's swarmed by crypto content but it's a nice, simple, distributed protocol. Run your own node; compared to any AP service, it's astonishingly lightweight. Peer, or not; refuse to handle traffic from the crypto heavy nodes.

It's a fantastic, well designed protocol. Read a few NIPS, then read the Activity Pub design and you tell me which one you think is more well-designed.

I won't ignore that the majority of traffic was crypto stuff, but it's slowly broadening out to more legitimate content, like porn.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Pretty sure it also has a decent amount of alt-right MAGA content as well.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weirdo crypto bros?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

And Raging angry right wingers. Though a lot of those are moving to mainstream services like Twitter and Facebook.