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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.

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[–] enchanted@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Eh, far safer to chain your own vpns. At least the you know tunnel A cannot see tunnel B's traffic. Who's to say if Obscura is correctly doing as they say, or just decrypting it and forwarding over another tunnel. You can't verify that yourself.

[–] exdor@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You can do this on Linux but not on Android for example. And even on Linux it is not trivial. Mind to share a guide? I am curious

[–] plateee@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Not OP, but I was curious too. There's a guide that looks legit for running your own multi-hop wireguard: https://vpnlab.io/en/guides/multihop-wireguard-chain-setup-guide-50

And a more sketchy/AI looking python project: https://github.com/a904guy/VPN-Chainer

[–] enchanted@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It works a little different on Android, but you can still chain OpenVPN, Wireguard, and TOR all at the same time, caveat is your apps have to support a proxy setting. Use firewall permit only localhost connections.

Or if you have a server somewhere, set that up to do the chaining and have your mobile connect to that.