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Hello! Transparency report. NGOs, persons or entities in general whose public activities are compatible with our mission and that we decided to help, according to the limits set by our resources and the commitments to our customers, during the first half of 2019, in alphabetical order AccessNow, for the steadfast activity aimed to defend and extend the digital rights of users at risk around the world. Caitlin Johnstone, for her commitment to totally independent journalism, for publishing non-copyrighted articles and for her fight against censorship in the pursuit of truth. Chelsea Manning (through her legal defense fund), for having put freedom of expression and the right to access and make information public pertaining to war crimes on a level higher than her personal safety and freedom with exceptional courage and moral integrity. Electronic Frontier Foundation, for outstanding support of civil liberties and fundamental rights in the digital and non-digital world through correct and precise information, pro bono legal activities and support inside and outside courts, and development of valuable open source software tools. Mastodon, for the ongoing development of an open source software project which has the potential to significantly enhance freedom of expression and privacy in a "social network" environment Tor nodes and Tor Project, for their effective and invaluable ability to enhance privacy and bypass censorship in the digital world, through open source software, in ways easily available to any Internet-connected citizen in the world. WikiLeaks, for having revolutionized the world of journalism with unprecedented courage, through a nonprofit organization, in spite of the enormous risks derived by such a disruptive activity. Please consult our mission web page for details and additional information, as well as other entities supported by AirVPN in periods earlier than 2019: https://airvpn.org/mission NOTE During the first half of 2019, Amnesty International, for its long standing activities in protection of the right to a due and fair process, freedom of expression and other human rights, had been taken into serious consideration and donations had been planned. However, new events have caused concern and disappointment to AirVPN founders. AirVPN founders deem that Amnesty International decision to not consider Chelsea Manning and Julian Assange as prisoners of conscience is unfair and factually wrong. AirVPN founders also deem that Amnesty International decision to not pursue any active work in defense of Manning and Assange requires a serious re-consideration about the compatibility of Amnesty International activities with AirVPN mission. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/05/23/assa-m23.html In the course of 2019, in case Amnesty is not going to change the aforementioned decisions, donation funds for Amnesty will be re-allocated to support different NGOs or entities. EDIT: position of Amnesty International changed on late February 2020: https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/julian-assange-usa-justice/ when Amnesty asked: thus recognizing that Assange is a political prisoner, as he is charged for his publishing activities. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN

Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN ninth birthday celebrations! From a two servers service located in a single country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 22 countries in three continents, providing now 230,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. Software related development has also been powered up. Eddie Android edition is now a fully mature application which features an exclusive best effort method to prevent traffic leaks and a complete integration with AirVPN. In 2019 AirVPN has also started operating in South America, on top of Asia, Europe and North America, and the infrastructure has grown significantly, counting now on more than 260 bare metal servers, whose traffic is mainly powered by tier1 and tier2 transit providers. AirVPN has also become recently an EFF "Super Major Donor" member. Furthermore, and we're very glad to announce it here publicly for the first time, development for OpenBSD and FreeBSD has started. We are also integrating OpenVPN 3 on new software which will couple Eddie on UNIX-like systems, including Linux, during the second half of 2019. GDPR compliance was already a de facto standard for AirVPN way before the Regulation entered into force, mainly because we don't collect personal data, period. By the way the compliance is now fully formalized (check details in our Privacy Notice and Terms https://airvpn.org/privacy ). AirVPN provides probably the strongest protection to your data, not only personal data but all data, you can find on any service. If you are an AirVPN customer or user, you are probably aware that our service is radically different than any other VPN service you might have met anywhere. No whistles and bells, no marketing fluff, no fake locations, no advertising on mainstream media, a transparent privacy policy, no trackers on the web site or in mobile applications, no bullshit of any kind in our infrastructure to sell your personal data to any personal data merchant, and above all a clear mission which is the very reason which AirVPN operates for. https://airvpn.org/mission Many of you know that when you buy AirVPN service, you not only support yourself and improve your ability to exercise your fundamental rights, but you also support AirVPN mission. However, while AirVPN in itself has flourished, AirVPN mission aims and values related to fundamental rights have experienced, in 2018 and 2019, a grim time. Australia "encryption-busting" monstrous law is fully in force; the European Union has definitively approved the bad Copyright Directive, mandating automated filters, which will unavoidably limit freedom of expression on big boards, and making the first step to undermine the liability exemptions of mere conduits and web publishers alike; new threats to citizens' privacy are becoming real through plans of wide face recognition deployment, indiscriminate DNA databases proposals, more pervasive and efficient profiling (possibly even through AI), and strict cooperation between Internet tech giants and intelligence agencies; the persecution of journalists, publishers and whistleblowers all around the world has reached unprecedented levels, revealing a widespread plan to suppress freedom of the press and freedom of expression even in so called "Western democracies". One of the greatest journalists and publishers of all times, Julian Assange, nominated seven times for the Nobel Peace prize and winner of many journalistic prizes and awards, has been and is prosecuted and persecuted for having merely published the truth about war crimes, corruption, torture and more, with a 100% accuracy, and for having protected his sources as any good investigative journalist does. He has been detained arbitrarily and illegally, as widely ascertained and recognized by the UN. He has been victim of an abominable smear campaign based on ignominious lies and defamation, a campaign aimed to turn the public opinion against him and distract from WikiLeaks publications content exposing war criminals in governments key positions, warmongers, torture maniacs, systematic illegal surveillance, endemic privacy violations and plots to limit and reduce fundamental rights. He is currently detained in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, with no access to books, maximum two visits per month, forbidden in practice to coordinate a defense with his lawyers, in a tiny cell of a maximum security UK prison which has been designed for dangerous murderers and terrorists, while UK will decide whether to extradite him to the USA to face a potential 175 years imprisonment. Whistleblowers like Chelsea Manning, who should be regarded as a hero, as Noam Chomsky, John Pilger, Daniel Ellsberg and other titans of our times pointed out, have been tortured and are still persecuted by the very same criminals whose crimes were exposed. Privacy activists and software developers, like Ola Bini in Ecuador, are imprisoned without charges, simply for having showed friendship to Assange or WikiLeaks, or for having developed software aimed to protect privacy through encryption. And the list can go on and on and on. But make no mistake: the dark times we are living in, the environment of fear and intimidation that various governments are building against the exercise of those fundamental rights which our mission forces us to protect to the best of our abilities, the mounting attacks against "encryption for everyone" and the awareness that enemies of human rights nestle inside government agencies, have not undermined our determination. Quite the opposite: they have convinced us that our service is even more necessary now and we are resolute to do even more. Our mission has been and will be empowered by the ongoing support to projects and NGOs which aim to the protection of privacy, personal data and freedom of expression, now more than ever. We have confirmed our support to Tor and we will progressively add support to champions of freedom of expression and privacy in any way our capacities and abilities will allow us. If you're curious to know something about a series of fortunate events which gave birth to AirVPN, have a look here: https://airvpn.org/aboutus To worthily celebrate AirVPN ninth birthday, we're glad to inform you that starting from now we will offer a 20% discount on all long term plans. Hurry up, this special offer will end on June the 11th, 23:59:59 UTC! Check the new prices here. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Happy birthday from us as wel. You've been a great help in keeping us safe from the "bad bad outside" keep on going, doing the good work!

Thanks. answered my question exactly. I must have missed this information on the specs page. So really the only way to improve latency would be to run my own DNS server in my local network. This could be done on raspberry pi.

thx4your answer. before: it's not only the load. anyway: my answer is delayed because i used another system after the last post. fedora, silverblue 30. there you layer the rpm package (rpm-ostree) and the thing is done. key-import et cetera is not necessary. ram & cpu load is negligible. my reference to flatpaks was in the context of f. silverblue/rawhide, which i have been using with interruption for a long time. things are a little different here, therefore my "thinking" is a little different here. flatpaks - everything is possible and it would relieve also your work a lot. snaps can be forgotten anyway, because they cause (not) only problems with selinux and are (therefore) not conform to the cross-platform-ideal. apparmor relieves snap functionality significantly, so this snap-thing only works under canonical/opensuse .. and the devil knows where else. yep, as far as i understand it, the flatpak-sandbox is also an obstacle for the development of several flatpak-browsers. on the other hand, massive development is taking place here day after day and month after month new opportunities are opening up for developers. at least i would keep an eye on this topic. again, it exonerates the user, it exonerates you. the current state of affairs = at the time of the 1st posting: i'm back at kde-neon. i had eddie 2.16.3. on fedora and there was a "mono" process (minimum load), here on neon i see a process with the name "main" (root). since a simple import of the generated ovpn via network-manager is not possible without my cloudflare-dns appearing in various tests (i tried every solution given in the net, nothing helped) i depend on eddie (i consciously don't write "dns-leak" in this forum). i don't install debs principally. it already takes to overcome to install eddie via repo & co. (as mentioned, i'm used to other approaches on linux). and pacman - j.. no. not on neon. i don't want to build a "kubuntu/neon mix" out of it. pkcon xy, sudo apt autoclean; sudo apt clean; sudo apt autoremove --purge && sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}') minimal default ubuntu-repos, non-bloated vanilla kde, discover & flatpaks - that's all. and yep, that's right to. ram shouldn't be a real problem. it's 2019. but - like paradox-lunduke always repeats - there is hardly any downward compatibility on linux. non-bloated is always better than bloated. and what about old computers. hell, there are still computers with 2 gb ram sold for far too much money - here, in europe. and what about people in poorer and/or restricted countries, who are even more interested in a (of course lightweight) vpn (client)? but i also read that you make a lot of changes to eddie, which takes time, so i have a lot of confidence (even in eddie-flatpak). 2.17.2.? i'm running 2.16.3. is 2.17.2 stable? must take a look.. where (edit: uh, under experimental - i will try it). best regards, n. ps: not one of my flatpak apps is resource-hungry

Agree, but it's just a way of grey SEO tactic, not as dirty ones as other VPN services do by hijacking all possible privacy and censorship related hashtags for example. Just like you would do with classic search engines and meta tags for common terms and place them strategically on your index-able pages. The assumption here is that when people look for that material on Twitter, they will land on "ads" for the VPN service, which promotes pro-whoever speech thus implying the service is pro-privacy, but not with blatant "Buy our VPN! #FreeAssange" nonsense where only the hashtag is hijacked. Social media is mainly used as a marketing machine these days, if you want just service updates the Announcement area is a better place to look at. You can also subscribe to notifications in the forums, so you won't miss anything. Maybe not an Air user, but he is a Tor user, so with 10+ more sponsored exits it's "hard" not to pass via Torservers nodes which they sponsor. They also donated alot to Wikileaks directly, which is Assange's "Escobar stash" so to speak The downside is that is a subject to another topic, that Air can be now sanctioned as an activist movement supporting WL with all the possible implications, you are free to open this discussion if you like. I don't have a personal opinion if this move was good or bad, and I am not a big Assange supporter myself. Personally I think he is a great marketing oriented new-age reporter who uses the work/leaks of others to make them appear in the world news. Snowden, with the help of a few mostly anonymous people made significantly more actual contributions without this controversial image. // I am not the person running the Twitter, just explaining logic behind it and why businesses do it on Black Friday for example (the #BF hashtag) Still, it's much better than paying to those garbage fake review sites and all the paid shills who promote the service for money on social media. And Air doesn't have pay for advertising, at least not in a way it would imply paid advertising. It does sponsors many projects, and of course users come to Air because they searched for some project and found Air on the way (just like I did in 2012). It's a very small number of users, but they are valuable, since they don't just look to download 100TB of torrents per month, send spam, complain if they have speed less than their ISP promised them or open 1000 fake profiles and get the entire datacenter banned on this site. Those are the best users who actually use VPNs for what it was intended for. The only way to find such users, who are not much into VPNs since they have other priorities in life, is via social media.

Website: http://www.cbs.com Watch CBS television online. Find CBS primetime, daytime, late night, and classic tv episodes, videos, and information. Status: OK Native: no servers Routing: all servers Updated: 03-Aug-18

https://netflix.com Watch Movies & TV Shows Online or Streaming right to your TV via Xbox, Wii, PS3 & many other devices. Only $7.99/mo. Status: NOT ACCESSIBLE Native: none. Routing: All servers Last update: February the 1st, 2020

This doesnt work for me, I CAN connect but it shows my normal IP. I did everything step by step from your gude... I'm using a Asus RT AC56U with latest Tomato by Shibby. What did I overlooked?

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Website: http://www.alice.tv/ Italian TV Streaming Status: OK Routing: All servers to IT route.