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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! 🔗
Obscura
Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise
Available for Mac. Download today.
 ---- 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. image 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. image 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! image 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. image 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. 🔗
Obscura
Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise
Available for Mac. Download today.
 Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you on the free and open internet. 🏄 image P.S. For those looking for an exploration of our technical choices, here's our blog post!
Obscura
Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC
Deep-dive into how 2-party relay architecture and QUIC protocols create a new generation of VPNs that don

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🌐 A new top VPN for privacy? It won't be a surprise if I tell you that as of today ProtonVPN, Mullvad and IVPN would be the best in terms of privacy. However, a "new" VPN has teamed up with Mullvad, I've been closely following this rather interesting project called ObscuraVPN for some time now. (No, it's not advertising or anything like that) How are they different from others? They don't see your internet traffic, since the outgoing servers will be Mullvad's. They are "middlemen" between you and the Mullvad server. Typically, there is "multi-hop" in many VPNs that make the traffic go through 2 servers, but they are usually from the same company. The difference here is that what Obscura can know, Mullvad cannot know and vice versa. They also claim that unlike other VPNs, their traffic is much more difficult to block. Our protocol blends into 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. Currently it is only available for MacOS, but I hope it will soon be on other platforms so I can try it out. They are clearly on the right track and could not have a better ally. I will inform you of any relevant developments they may have. View quoted note →
hey Obscura team congratulations on shipping the first launch release!! partnering with Mullvad for the second VPN service was a great choice, as they already have a solid reputation. in regards to the service architecture, WireGuard VPN over QUIC, am concerned that it will not be possible to implement on routers (pfSense, OPNsense, OpenWrt, UniFi etc)? im currently using a WireGuard mesh (NetBird / Tailscale) to route traffic for remote clients to my LAN, which is then routed outbound via a WireGuard VPN to the Internet. this ensures that all hosts traverse the VPN, regardless of whether they are local or connected via cellular / public Wi-Fi. if you do enable WireGuard config on routers, would this be directly to the Mullvad servers, bypassing Obscura? congratulations again on the launch. regardless of whether this service works for my use case, it will be something i will recommend to family and friends!
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Hey that's a great question. We _are_ working on a WireGuard config generator. I'd encourage you to sign up for our platform-specific waitlist by clicking on the "Other Platforms" button on our homepage: obscura.net, you'll get an email once we have support for platforms! (You can choose “Other” for the platform for now, we’re adding a “Router” option soon) > if you do enable WireGuard config on routers, would this be directly to the Mullvad servers, bypassing Obscura? It would still be through us, though of course it wouldn't have the QUIC tunneling capabilities
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Not to worry, most of our engineers are Linux + Android so that'll come! We're also actively working on a WireGuard config generator to tide people over until fully-fleshed-out clients are released for other platforms I'd encourage you to sign up for our platform-specific waitlist by clicking on the "Other Platforms" button on our homepage: obscura.net, you'll get an email once we have support for platforms!
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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:
Obscura
Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise
Available for Mac. Download today.
, 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"
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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! 🔗
Obscura
Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise
Available for Mac. Download today.
 ---- 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. image 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. image 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! image 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. image 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. 🔗
Obscura
Obscura VPN | Privacy that’s more than a promise
Available for Mac. Download today.
 Thanks for reading, and I’ll see you on the free and open internet. 🏄 image P.S. For those looking for an exploration of our technical choices, here's our blog post!
Obscura
Trust, 2-Party Relays, and QUIC
Deep-dive into how 2-party relay architecture and QUIC protocols create a new generation of VPNs that don
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