I’m sharing this one because I’m curious what more knowledgeable people think about this one. Please take a peek at the article before joining the discussion, as my limited quote might have dropped useful information
The VPN industry runs on a promise. Pick almost any provider and the pitch is the same: “we don’t keep logs.” You hand over your entire internet connection and, in return, you get a pinky-promise that nobody is writing anything down.
For a lot of privacy-minded people, that promise stopped being good enough a while ago. A no-logs policy is only as honest as the company making it, and even an honest company can be hacked, subpoenaed, or quietly acquired.
Obscura VPN is trying to answer to that problem. Instead of asking you to trust its word, it splits the job across two independent companies so that neither one can tie your identity to your browsing. The first hop is Obscura’s own servers; the exit hop is run by Mullvad. a respected VPM company out of Sweden. Your traffic is end-to-end encrypted to Mullvad’s keys, so Obscura literally can’t read it, and Mullvad never sees who you are.



They work fine already but could be better. Open source and contact to the dev over PGP but they could have a public issuetracker or a semipublic read-only one or so.
Currently this is really just a companies thing, not legislations. If you live in frankfurt and choose frankfurt, your traffic will go through an obscura server in frankfurt and then a mullvad server in frankfurt. Not amazing if you want to make tracing harder by using servers in different countries.
Speeds are fine, the android client is reliable. LAN bypass works, no split tunneling is annoying though