An alternative to a VPNs - afair it routes your traffic through a Tor-style network, it’s FOSS software made in Austria
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You might want to ask/crosspost on !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com or similar communities. They have a vested interest in this stuff.
I do not have personal experience with their paid plan, but I have used Portmaster. Seems comparable to a traditional VPN, and there’s a few things to note about Safing, Portmaster, and the SPN:
- Safing donates money to privacyguides.org. Excellent start.
- Supposedly the SPN (Safing Privacy Network) works similarly to Tor, and like Tor, each node doesn’t know the originating IP and the destination simultaneously. Access is assigned with a blind, randomly generated token after Portmaster validates that you are allowed to access the SPN
- It’s being acquired by IVPN. I don’t know much about them, but they have supposedly contributed a lot of good code to Portmaster, and they are recommended by Privacy Guides.
- SPN was audited by Cure53 in 2020.
- No mobile client (yet).
This is really interesting, I’m also hoping someone can share experiences here.
I wanted to comment that at the bottom of the website there is a link to their whitepaper written in 2019 that has very interesting look into network privacy, recommend reading a bit: https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdf
