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Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN eleventh birthday celebrations offering special discounts on longer term plans. It seems like it was only yesterday that we celebrated the 10th milestone birthday, and here we are, one year later already. 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 four continents, providing now 240,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. We still define it as a "baby", but AirVPN is now the oldest VPN in the market which never changed ownership, and it's one of the last that still puts ethics well over profit, a philosophy which has been rewarded by customers and users. 2020 (and 2021 so far) have been harsh years for the mankind but we have no rights to complain too much because AirVPN was only marginally touched by those terrible repercussions which affected many other business sectors in general. In spite of that, we could not maintain our promise to deliver native software for FreeBSD and we apologize for the failure. However, releasing software for FreeBSD, specifically AirVPN Suite, remains one of our goals, so stay tuned. On the other hand, Eddie desktop edition, AirVPN Suite for Linux, Hummingbird for Linux and macOS, and OpenVPN 3 AirVPN library were updated substantially and swiftly. Moreover, Eddie Android edition development has been recently re-opened to provide a new version updated to new requirements and specifications of Android 11 during 2021. Hummingbird was natively released for M1 based Apple Mac systems too, allowing a dramatic performance boost (up to +100% in >100 Mbit/s lines). Behind the scenes, infrastructure had some paramount improvements. The whole network in the Netherlands has been enlarged with additional redundancy and several servers around the world have had hardware upgrades. In Sweden and Switzerland we started operating servers connected to exclusive 10 Gbit/s lines and ports, and we optimized the environment to obtain more bandwidth from the OpenVPN processes. We managed to beat the previous 1.7 Gbit/s barrier. The performance on the customer side has improved and reached new peaks of excellence, as you can see here: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/48234-speedtest-comparison/?do=findComment&comment=130191 Furthermore, the infrastructure has become fully Wireguard capable and throughout 2021 we will start offering Wireguard connections, in addition to OpenVPN ones, in an hardened environment which mitigates the numerous privacy problems posed by Wireguard. Last but not least we re-started operations in a fourth continent, Oceania, with a new server in New Zealand. All AirVPN applications and libraries are free and open source software released under GPLv3. It's worth quoting literally what we wrote last year for AirVPN birthday: Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! Well, of course Wireguard is catastrophic in this sense, because it is very poor in options, but luckily it's not the same thing with OpenVPN, because in Wireguard by default you have 1) a permanent bijection between private IP address and client KEY (we will delete the link periodically when we offer Wireguard and re-create it when a connection is required), because Wireguard does not support any other method to dynamically handle clients (this feature might be implemented in the future) This dangerous pre-prepared static link does not exist at all in OpenVPN. 2) your real IP address is permanently stored by Wireguard even after you turn off your software or machine, because Wireguard is extremely limited and does not have any explicit-exit-notify or ping-timeout option (we will therefore force deletion and disconnections after some time there is no communications by the clients, even though this will cause some unexpected disconnections). OpenVPN does not need to do so because it realizes when one of the peers is no more there, even in UDP of course, so the real IP address for the socket etc. is immediately lost at disconnection. 3) Wireguard requires that the mentioned data is stored in files (we will keep them in RAM as usual, to mitigate the problem) But yes, we will re-consider the whole matter, just in case. Additional re-checks in security fields are always good Kind regards

HELLO ALL !! after learning around the net and some researchs im asking if AIRVPN is included about users security privacy to bound to secure and protect data collected from users under the GDPR. As a lightening recap; the 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes are terms for cooperation and sharing agreements between various state intelligence agencies. The big three groupings are the 5 Eyes Alliance, 9 Eyes Alliance, and the 14 Eyes Alliance. All together, these incorporate the following countries (with Israel as an added bonus). Australia Belgium Denmark France Germany **********Italy********** ??? THE JURISDICTION OF AIR VPN !!! Canada New Zealand Norway Spain Sweden The Netherlands The United Kingdom The United States AGAIN... There are reasons to be suspicious VPNs are controlled and restricted technologies in some countries. But statistically, people have far more reasons to be suspicious over what a VPN is doing than about revelations by Edward Snowden of international intelligence sharing. Studies have found numerous examples where VPNs actually damaged user security by leaking traffic details, adding adware, not encrypting user data, and selling user data. This is somehow less of a scandal than the potential inquiry of a state intelligence agency into an individual’s online activities. What about my private data? Any VPN provider does have access to user data – whether or not they admit to making logs of user activities or if it is stored. In addition to the trust element – does a user believe the provider or not – there is also the data protection angle. If a VPN provider is operating in the EU, they are bound to secure and protect data collected from users under the GDPR. Failure to do this means public reporting requirements, potential penalties, and a subsequently damaged reputation. This requirement does not exist equally in all countries. Like it or not, GDPR puts the onus on companies to be more careful with the private user data collected and stored. Transparency over fearmongering As a German company, Avira follows the strict German and European legal requirements concerning on a number of areas, but especially data protection requirements according to the GDPR. During 2018, we recorded 13 requests for information on Avira Phantom VPN user – which resulted in no disclosures of user information. Even more important, we received no National Security letters, no gag orders, or warrants from any government organization While people may be understandably nervous about the 14 Eyes alliance and other data sharing agreements, the reality is that these agencies have no secret view into what Avira Phantom VPN users are doing. But on the other hand, we can offset this with the real experiences of users enjoying their virtual privacy and picking their virtual locations – secure in the knowledge that their online lives are being guarded by a company that takes privacy seriously. some admin / sys admin can explain all this to air vpn users wich trus on you ? thank you

I am good, no need to buy. Happy b day.Your subscription will expirein 4182 days (ma. 8 nov. 2032 11:58

Congratulations, keep it up, open source is doing it. Support is great.

Happy B-day!

Great job. Been very happy with the service and support over the years. Keep up the good work!!

Happy Birthday! I'm a happy customer. The speeds are great for me on most servers (thanks to multiple datacenters to chose from ex. Leaseweb, M247 in Germany). One thing I would like to see is some visual polish in the Windows (Eddie) app. It's nothing very important in a security software but some UI refresh would be great. Keep the wind (air, pun intended) in your sails and GL in the next year.

How long is it available? I get my payment on the first and I really want to buy it next week! Thanks in regards

Happy Birthday! Thanks for the offer, picked up a 3 year extension.

Hello staff, thanks for your perfect work over all those years and all the best for the future!

hello , i was just asking if air vpn as a EU member and related with eu gdpr and the eyes to keep users data , if when asked/forced air vpn can find it self in a situation like hide my ass wich give a user infos to fbi ? same thing happened in past with purevpn with jurisdiction at hong-kong 😞 just wondering if it may happen here a scenario like this... my is just a curiosity about real things/facts ... may happen in virtual world and reflect to ppl real life again... 🙂