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submitted 16 hours ago by new_otters_raft@piefed.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

Nord runs too many ads for me to like it

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

As in like on youtube, not in service?

[-] boonhet@lemmy.zip 1 points 17 minutes ago

The issue is, any time I see a company pay a ton to advertise on YouTube, I distrust it.

The cut they give affiliate marketers is massive too, meaning the service is hella overpriced.

[-] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 hour ago

They also show ads on TV. I haven't tried Nord so I can't say if they've got ads in the program

this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2026
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