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Amrith

Outline by Alphabet - Control and build your own VPN 🛠️

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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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Tim Wang
Like the execution, skeptical of the source. 4/7 thumbs up.
Amrith
Hunter
@besttimyouknow You're skeptical of Google?
Alessio Fanelli
@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.
Amrith
Hunter
@fanahova Fair point, but this is completely open-source and self-hosted so AFAIK, everything's controlled by you.
Pablo Fernández
@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 ;)
Alessio Fanelli
@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!
heretiq

Trusting Google with your VPN is akin to buying the lock to your henhouse from the fox. Sorry, not buying this.

Pros:

VPNs are an essential resource

Cons:

It‘s from Alphabet (Google)

Zachary Reese
You're not trusting Google with anything. They authored the initial code, but you're the one executing it. It's completely transparent.
Grant
Seems like a good solution if you need the extra control. Running your own server can "start around $5 USD per month", as they say, I paid $5 for fully hosted TunnelBear last year. So definitely not a cost saving measure.
wojtek
@grantgamesgames Sadly TunnelBear has been acquired by McAfee so you should cancel immediately.
Kun Ran
People in China need to try this out 😅
Troy Osinoff
No love for Apple :(
JOHN METACREATOR
Any timing on when macOS support releases?
Preston Stafford
Good product, love that it is open source
Vikash Rungta
This is great, self hosted servers are much safer then using an vpn saas provider. Going to give this a spin
Uday Singh
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.
charlie
Shucks, no MacOS support.
Mike Heininger
... 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 ...
Saxon Brooker
is there a zip version?
Christopher Leach
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
Tolgahan Bozkurt (aradabir007)
@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.
Vivek Sharma
nice
Daniel Morgan
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!
Lyondhür Picciarelli
Ain’t this cute..