A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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You can get proton VPN from f-droid, that does not link you to a country specific store.
You can also use Orbot, or InviziblePro (which incorporates Orbot) to use Tor on mobile.
I had never heard of this app, but ex Palantir, earning crypto money, and their website (which has Google tracking) put me off.
They have a ‘Guest Mode’ , I don’t know how long or how much data you can use with it though. Otherwise you need to signup with phone number, email, or Solana address, all of which they store.
Cryptocurrency wallet addresses.
The city, region, and country of users._
Okay, a lot of red flags. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
TOR traffic is actively monitored in my country. So if I browse the internet via TOR I’ll stand out. Most just use VPNs here. I’m not sure if my government is actively monitoring who’s traffic goes through VPN tunnels but even if they do I can easily mingle as theres tons and tons of VPN users in my country.
Do you know if Tor Snowflake bridges are monitored as well?
You might want to use the proton VPN from F-Droid then. I remember reading that when India was going to ban VPN usage in the past that proton moved their servers to Singapore and used VPS to make it available in India.
Note that I have used proton previously but no longer do.
I am not sure about this. I’ll have to do some research on this.
I am not really comfortable using Proton VPN. Atleast not while I’m residing in my country. Is there no other free VPN which the privacy community wholely agrees to be safe?
There is https://f-droid.org/packages/se.leap.riseupvpn/
And
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vpnhood.client.android.web
You can look at those. I personally would rate them as safe, I previously used both. I found rise up to be faster, though neither was ‘fast’, but it’s been awhile since I used them.
Thanks for recommending vpnhood! I’ll try it!
I hope it works out for you, please report back
vpnhood connect works fine for me. Thanks for the recommendation. But… information about it so low on the internet. Is it reliable?
What are you trying to accomplish by using a VPN?
Trying to stay private from my soon-to-be dictatorship government.
I don’t have a specific recommendation, but you can look over the big list maintained by Reddit users: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ijfqfLrJWLUVBfJZ_YalVpstWsjw-JGzkvMd6u2jqEk/edit
You probably want one hosted in a non-cooperative country, and one that doesn’t keep logs.
Thank you so much for this!
Aside from browsing the fediverse, I also use the internet to do some “normie stuff” such as viewing YouTube videos via freetube and playing online games. So I need some decent speed.