Thoughts on Amnezia VPN?
Thoughts on Amnezia VPN?
Amnezia VPN — simple and free app to run a self-hosted VPN with high privacy requirements
Whats with the Anarchist A? Is it anything more than reduce its meaning into an aesthetic?
Looks like it's a for profit company so take a guess...
Damn...
Can't remember
It’s pretty new, I’d give it a few years before trusting it.
If I’m self hosting it, then I’ll just setup wireguard.
4 years is pretty new? How much time should pass by for it to become trustable?
10, imo.
Well, they forked wireguard go… I say their seriousness will depend on:
- how well they maintain their fork
- whether or not they continue to offer their self-hosted tier
I’ve been burned too many times by startups who gathered up some initial money from investors and then went all corpo once the money dried up.
What's their MO?
New entrant into already saturated market?
They forgot.
Amnezia is interesting. It is definitely better than just self-hosting a vanilla WireGuard/OpenVPN, because of the obfustation options they provide (XRAY Reality, Cloak etc.) Although, personally I would prefer to simply setup any of the protocols myself than rely on Amnezia or Outline or whatever else. For non-tech savy users this might be a great option though.
Looks like my telegram dealer has opened up a VPN provider startup, very weird aesthetics. Can’t say anything about the product though, I guess it’s good to have more competition in the market?
The service seems kind of generic, maybe even worse than the other generic VPN services. No statements about what they log, whether they allow p2p, no mention of port forwarding, servers in only 5 countries which you may/may not want to VPN through, etc.
Not sure about the software, I guess they think it will be an improvement over OpenVPN/WireGuard which is debatable.
No statements about what they log
It's on their main page bruh:
If you use the AmneziaVPN app for a self-hosted VPN, we do not collect any data about you or your server.
If you connect to our services, such as Amnezia Free and Amnezia Premium, we collect only the data necessary for the VPN to function.
Maybe I'm just being dumb and can't find it but...its a massive red flag for a VPN not to have a privacy policy.
So they share "depersonalized" data with advertisers.
They user hidden pixels to track you on their website.
And they allow advertisers to collect your IP address to send you personalized ads.
looks good on paper. idk what's behind it