The way things are going, obfuscating the simple fact you are using a VPN is becoming increasingly important.
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Hm. Mullvad is looking better. Will look up these guys more.
Their interface rocks (no surcharge xmr payments!) but there’s no port forwarding
May I ask you what are you using right now?
If I understand it correctly, it masks that its vpn traffic by appearing as QUIC traffic (udp under http)?
As the title of the RFC implies, QUIC obfuscation works by tunneling UDP through an HTTP server acting as a proxy.
...yes, it says so in the article.
My confusion is more that that quote doesn't confirm that they are trying to mimic QUIC traffic, only that they use udp with http.
The use of "tunneling" usually implies wrapping a protocol inside another, so it wouldn't be mimicking QUIC, but rather be a genuine stream. I assume from the quote
"The Android & iOS apps will include QUIC obfuscation in future releases."
This is great, I might try it again then. I want out of Proton.
I keep hearing Proton is supportive of Trump and will easily turn you over.
That's not true; he has never expressed support for Trump. The tweet people tark about
Thank you. Now I've seen the actual tweet. There's always a tweet with these MAGA folk.
Yeah their CEO said some weird shit last year. They also just rolled out an LLM chat bot this year. Sketchy company heavily leaning into enshittification.
I switched to Proton at one point because they're one of the last few providers to offer port forwarding, but I recently cancelled it and went back to Mullvad.
that's an odd thing to hear