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Mullvad VPN AB or
Signal Foundation or
WireGuard (Jason A. Donenfeld) / community tooling
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Mullvad VPN AB or
Signal Foundation or
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Flat EUR 5 / month, no tiers and no discounts for longer commitments. Pay with a card,
PayPal, bank transfer, cash mailed in an envelope, or cryptocurrency (incl. Monero). (1) ·
Free, no ads, no paid tiers. Run by the Signal Foundation, a US 501(c)(3) nonprofit
funded by grants and donations; by charter it cannot be acquired. (1) ·
Software is free and open source (GPLv2); your only cost is a VPS -- roughly
USD 4-6 / month on a provider like [[Digital Ocean]], or a spare box you already run. (1)
source license:
description:
None (1) ·
End-to-end encrypted 1:1 and group messaging, plus voice/video calls, built on
the audited Signal Protocol (Double Ratchet + X3DH). ~40M monthly users. Registration
requires a phone number; usernames (added 2024) let you start chats without sharing it. (1) ·
Privacy-first WireGuard/OpenVPN provider run from Sweden. No email or personal
details at signup -- you get a random account number instead of a username/password. Owned by
Mullvad VPN AB (also behind the Mullvad Browser, built with the Tor Project). (1)
usage notes:
rejected alternatives:
Commercial Israeli-owned VPNs (Kape's ExpressVPN / CyberGhost / PIA /
ZenMate, Hola, Hotspot Shield) reintroduce exactly the operator you're trying to remove -- see
[[:Category:VPN]]. (1) ·
ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, PIA, and ZenMate are all owned by the
British-Israeli Kape Technologies (now a delisted black box); Hola VPN is Israeli and resold
user bandwidth. See [[:Category:VPN]] for the full ownership picture. (1) ·
WhatsApp (uses the Signal protocol but is Meta-owned and harvests
metadata) and Telegram (chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default, weaker crypto). (1)
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