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Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters

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201 points sdsantos | 1 comments | 03 Sep 25 16:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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arewethereyeta ◴[03 Sep 25 18:04 UTC] No.45118747[source]▶
That's why we sell only the service [1] and point our users to the default app install (Wireguard in our case). Ever since Holla VPN and the entire Brightdata/Luminati clusterf~ VPNs are a risky business for users. Most of them are proxy nodes underneath, they rent you datacenter IPs while they sell your residential internet to third parties.

[1] https://www.anonymous-proxies.net/products/

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mzajc ◴[03 Sep 25 18:29 UTC] No.45118974[source]▶
> We offer highly secure, /.../Residential /.../ Proxies.

Where do you get residential proxies? I ask because I'm always reminded of https://sponsor.ajay.app/emails/.

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1. arewethereyeta ◴[03 Sep 25 18:47 UTC] No.45119151[source]▶
Our residentials are actually dedicated which are advertised as residentials by the provider. Sort of a mix where you get speed and stability as opposed to real residentials which are known to barely hold a connection sometimes. We also tried subrenting some real residentials but we will probably close that service since it brings nothing but pain due to unreliability. We're more focused now on privacy oriented services or anti censorship ones. Working atm on bringing Amnezia Wireguard up, we launched Trojan proxies earlier this year also.