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Outline by Alphabet — Control and build your own VPN 🛠️
Outline is an open source project created by Jigsaw (Alphabet) to provide a safer way for news organizations and journalists to access the internet.
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@grantgamesgames Sadly TunnelBear has been acquired by McAfee so you should cancel immediately.
Newsrooms were previously using something like: https://github.com/trailofbits/algo, which is not as easy to setup. Both are open source, so take your pick!
... but it’s a socks server and no VPN, no? If I am correct this means not all applications are supported and their FAQ eg mentions no UDP support on Windows ...
Just set it up and it's awesome. I would go with vultr because you get twice the bandwidth for same price as digital ocean
@leachy114 I assume you haven’t seen Hetzner or Scaleway, you get 10 times of the bandwidth on Hetzner and unlimited bandwidth on Scaleway. Also not to mention 2GB of ram (instead of 1) and 2 CPUs (instead of 1). And all of this are for $3 per month on both providers.
This is great, self hosted servers are much safer then using an vpn saas provider. Going to give this a spin
@amrith People use VPNs to hide themselves from companies like Google, so I'm sure there's doubts on whether you are actually protected here.
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@fanahova Fair point, but this is completely open-source and self-hosted so AFAIK, everything's controlled by you.
@besttimyouknow I understand your point. In this case, I think Alphabet's (Google) goal is to allow freedom of speech, which Google is generally for. Google benefits from the world being open (literally, they make more money with democracies than dictatorships) so it is in their best interest to protect journalist in those countries.
I wouldn't use it to avoid getting ads though ;)
@amrith In the second screenshot it prompts you to choose a server, so it was not clear if the servers were hosted by third parties or if you could set those up yourselves too. It looks like you can though, which is pretty cool!
You're not trusting Google with anything. They authored the initial code, but you're the one executing it. It's completely transparent.
This should be fun to try out. Love what the team at Jigsaw has been doing. Really liked their work RE: redirect. Looking forward to giving this a spin.
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