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Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN tenth 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 240,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. In 2019 and 2020, software development enhancement has paid off: now AirVPN develops on its own an OpenVPN3 forked library which resolves various problems from the main branch and adds new features. The library is used in Hummingbird, a free and open source software for Linux and Mac, known for its speed and compactness, in Eddie Android edition and in a new software which will be announced in June. Hummingbird has been released even for ARM based Linux devices, and runs fine for example in Raspberry PI. Eddie Desktop edition has been extensively rewritten to improve performance, reliability and security. Now anything not related to the user interface is written in C++ and a lot of security hardening has been implemented. Total compatibility with macOS Catalina, Windows 10 and latest Linux distributions has been achieved, and specific packages for various, widespread Linux distributions are available for easier installation. Eddie can act as a GUI for Hummingbird in Linux and Mac, while in Windows, Eddie can also be easily configured to run OpenVPN 2.5 with the wintun driver to achieve remarkable OpenVPN performance boost and put Windows on par with other systems OpenVPN throughput ability. Furthermore, the wintun driver resolves various problems which affected TAP-Windows driver. Development for OpenBSD and FreeBSD has been unfortunately re-planned but we're glad to announce here that it will continue, starting from summer 2020. All AirVPN applications and libraries are free and open source software released under GPLv3. We think that it's somehow surprising that AirVPN not only survived, but even flourished for 10 years, in an increasingly competitive market and increasingly privacy hostile environment. 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 that is the very reason which AirVPN operates for https://airvpn.org/mission , are probably, all together, the factors which allowed such a small "miracle" and maybe make AirVPN unique. Thank you all, you users, customers, members of the community, moderators, developers: the small "miracle" happened because of you, because you saw something in AirVPN. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

I do actually use jq and with ipleak's API since I got to know it before Airvpns. Didn't suggest it because it needs to be installed and the op seemed to be bound to grep/sed. Anyway I didn't know about the -r option to get rid of the "" so thanks a lot @giganerd!! that will save me a lot of |tr -d \" in my scripts!!

JSON output can be processed more elegantly with jq. A simple example: $ curl -sL https://airvpn.org/api/whatismyip/ | jq .ip,.ipv6 "2003:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:e36d:c310:da8b:xxxx" true The argument to jq is a filter definition with its own programming-like syntax. If invoked without arguments, "." is assumed which takes all output, formats it neatly and colors it. In the filter you can apply a shit ton of actions: maths, sorting, making arrays of outputs, regex, whatever sed would do, etc. are only a few examples. man jq is quite long. So this one would be something like: airvpn_ip_name=`curl -sL https://airvpn.org/api/whatismyip/` vpn_name=`echo "$airvpn_ip_name"|jq -r .server_name vpn_ip=`echo $airvpn_ip_name"|jq -r .ip -r prints fields as strings, in this case, without "" – you avoid calling sed twice that way.

Happy birthday 🙃 How long will the promtion last ?

@HannaForest About countries in the EU, any mandatory data indiscriminate retention framework is illegal according to two different CJEU decisions, so any attempt to enforce it or incrimination for having failed to enforce it can be easily challenged up to the highest court. About UK, the legal framework does not seem to enforce mandatory data retention to datacenters, but as soon as UK will get out of the EU we will re-check the situation with the help of lawyers. About France, the difference is that data retention seems mandatory for "hosting providers" (sic), so datacenters might start logging metadata without our knowledge. We will study again and re-consider in the next months anyway. Kind regards

happy B day and to all stay safe

Happy B-day had tp support i'm covered until 2027

Happy birthday AirVPN!🥳 I've been a user for some years now and even though I'm definitely not a tech wizard, I never felt overwhelmed or lost using your service. Keep up the good work and good deeds to privacy! Thanks again😁

Thank you for defending privacy and human rights in such orwellian times. Happy birthday, keep up the good work! And don´t drink too much while celebrating

Happy Birthday AirVPN! I've only been using this service for a couple of months, but it's excellent to see the service turning this age while still living up to it's mission it set over a decade ago. Thanks for the great service and transparancy, and let's see AirVPN continue on!

This provides me with an opportunity to say Thank you to AirVPN as well. I've been on this ride for nearly seven years now and I've seriously grown to fully trust AirVPN with whatever I do on the internet, in terms of both tech and ideology and the stability of both. Doesn't matter if I'm downloading with BitTorrent, playing a game or two or simply browsing the internet, it feels like nothing changed in terms of throughput or latency, while knowing that those activites are safer to use from a privacy point of view and that AirVPN will not sell me out. Now, I know that experiences vary and someone somewhere in the world don't enjoy the same quality of the service as I do – I live in Central Europe, after all. Problems are there to be solved, and that is what the AirVPN community does, which I personally see among the strong points of AirVPN: Despite the efforts of everyone to stay private and anonymous, even to the point of complete paranoia and exaggeration, there's still something I'd describe as the "AirVPN community spirit". When I started using AirVPN in 2013, and a short while after also spontaneously deciding to contribute to the forums, I didn't think how far this dedication would go. Well, here we are. Even though I was trying to help others, it would be a lie to say that I didn't learn anything myself. Through the forums I was able to pick up bits and pieces, read further manuals and how-tos, try things out myself, then pick up some more bits, read further, test deeper. The AirVPN community gave me some interesting hints and insights I wouldn't have gotten any other way and also influenced me on some of the more incisive decisions of mine. A humble example would be the decision to ditch Windows altogether, something that largely came from the community, and from the day I did that I not only learned more about the finer things of I.T., I was even able to directly translate what I learned into my job. Knowledge earned me respect, respect earned me.. well, nothing bad, you can be sure of that. Did I say that I never expected the decision to get involved here to turn out this way? As of today, AirVPN is the reference I compare the rest of the VPN providers to. Thank you again for the great service and may the next ten years be as good as the last and better!