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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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Like the execution, skeptical of the source. 4/7 thumbs up.
Hunter
You're skeptical of Google?
People use VPNs to hide themselves from companies like Google, so I'm sure there's doubts on whether you are actually protected here.
Hunter
Fair point, but this is completely and self-hosted so AFAIK, everything's controlled by you.
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 ;)
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!

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

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VPNs are an essential resource

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It‘s from Alphabet (Google)

If I'm not mistaken, the software is open source and you can run it on your own VPS.
You're not trusting Google with anything. They authored the initial code, but you're the one executing it. It's completely transparent.
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.
Sadly TunnelBear has been acquired by McAfee so you should cancel immediately.
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Wow. That is some horrible news!
People in China need to try this out 😅
No love for Apple :(
Good product, love that it is open source
This is great, self hosted servers are much safer then using an vpn saas provider. Going to give this a spin
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.
Shucks, no MacOS support.
... 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 ...
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