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Today is the day: Obscura VPN is NOW AVAILABLE!

Obscura is the first VPN that:

- CAN'T log your activity by design

- Outsmarts network filters

We believe Obscura sets the standard for a new generation of VPNs, and hope you’ll check it out!

🔗 https://obscura.net/

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Contrary to popular belief, traditional VPNs (even “no-log” ones) can track you – they see both who you are and what you do, just like your ISP.

Your ISP is no better. Since 2017, they've been able to legally sell your sensitive data.

Obscura is different – we never see your decrypted internet packets in the first place.

It’s simply impossible for us to log your internet activity, even if we were compelled to, or if our servers were compromised.

We achieve this by using a fully-independent exit hop run by @mullvadvpn. Ensuring that our servers never see your traffic, and the exit hop never sees your identity.

In fact, you can check your connected server’s public key against those listed on Mullvad’s server page!

But that’s not all…

You may have had the frustrating experience of trying to use your VPN on a restrictive WiFi: in an airport, a hotel, or certain jurisdictions.

Other VPNs will often fail to connect, as their off-the-shelf protocol is easily detected and blocked.

With Obscura, we built our own custom stealth protocol that is much harder to block.

Our protocol blends in with regular internet traffic using the same technology that powers HTTP/3 – QUIC – making it much harder for censors or network filters to detect or block.

To celebrate our launch, Obscura is just $6/month.

Our team has put in the hours to make this all a seamless experience, and I hope you’ll take Obscura for a spin.

🔗 https://obscura.net/

Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you on the free and open internet. 🏄

P.S. For those looking for an exploration of our technical choices, here's our blog post! https://obscura.net/blog/bootstrapping-trust/

When mobile? Will this always on VPN block me from accessing banking and federal websites?

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Glad you found us!

iOS is our next major platform. For others, I'd encourage you to sign up for our platform-specific waitlist by clicking on the "Other Platforms" button on our homepage: http://obscura.net, you'll get an email once we have support!

> Will this always on VPN block me from accessing banking and federal websites?

That will depend on what the website does, but we'd love to hear from you if you experience issues!

One of the key features we're exploring is fine-grain split-tunneling, which may solve a lot of the problems people have with IP reputation. E.g. "I don't really care if I'm not on the VPN for Amazon Prime, but I do want to be on it for everything else"

Yeah I tried to be VPN only but it was so inconvenient due to sites blocking me when I needed to complete life living tasks!

Yup, that's what we hope to solve with fine-grain split-tunneling when we enable it in the future!

if i don’t have to switch vpn off to access amazon you win take my money

We hope we get there soon! 🫡

Will yall enable and generate Obscura wireguard protocol config files for use directly on router?

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Would love to see opnsense integration.

Hey there! Let me know if this doesn't answer your question:

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Hey elsat! Let me know if this doesn't answer your question:

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Please add openwrt to the list!

See this note for how to sign up to be notified when we have Router support!

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OPNSense but no pfSense? I think you should put out bounties/bids. This VPN at the router level sounds very promising.