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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
stoic.
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
stoic.
Hunter
@fanahova Fair point, but this is completely open-source and self-hosted so AFAIK, everything's controlled by you.
Pablo Fernández
Screensaver Ninja
@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)

Mark Pors
If I'm not mistaken, the software is open source and you can run it on your own VPS.
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
God Hates Charades - 8 Bit Expansion
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
BYE
@grantgamesgames Sadly TunnelBear has been acquired by McAfee so you should cancel immediately.
Grant
God Hates Charades - 8 Bit Expansion
@pugson 😱
Muhammad Vaid
@grantgamesgames @pugson Wow. That is some horrible news!
Kun Ran
People in China need to try this out 😅
Binoy Xavier Joy
Troy Osinoff
No love for Apple :(
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
Unlined
... 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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