Hey there fellas! My father found this crap online. It immediately triggered my bull crap detectors. Is it actually something worth checking out, or snake oil?

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    11 months ago

    TOR is a decentralized overlay network

    Safing is a new onion network that you pay to use, so not as pure as Tor but looks promising https://safing.io/spn/

    Anything that’s not open source, really won’t cut the mustard as a decentralized VPN

    This deeper network place looks super sketchy. They sell your local bandwidth and pay you using their own weird cryptocurrency. That’s going to just set your self up for lots of abuse. I would highly recommend anyone avoid it, especially non-technical people

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      11 months ago

      speed is fine if its just for browsing, just a bit annoying in the streets to have to wait 30 seconds to make a search on my phone lol

  • ƊƲƘЄƬӇƠƦƖƠƝ@lemmy.one
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    Sentinel dVPN does/did the same thing. You’d connect to their network, pay a Node operator directly with the network’s coin, and you’d use their connection. Don’t know how safe it was, with respect to seeing the through-traffic, but it did work.

    These people are definitely not “the first”