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Hello! We're glad to inform you that, following the community requests and suggestions, we added five DNS block lists in our system, MIT licensed (*) by Jerry Joseph. GoodbyeAds A programmatically expanded list of hosts used for advertisements, Malware and tracking. Use this list to block ads trackers malwares. Items: 200489 (as of today) GoodbyeAds Samsung A well maintained list containing Samsung hosts used for advertisements and tracking. Those who are not using GoodbyeAds list and want to block only Samsung ads and tracking can use it. Items: 103 (as of today) GoodbyeAds Spotify A well maintained list containing Spotify hosts used for advertisements. This list helps to block/reduce Spotify ads. Items: 3774 (as of today) GoodbyeAds Xiaomi A well maintained list containing Xiaomi hosts used for advertisements and tracking. Those who are not using GoodbyeAds list and want to block only Xiaomi ads and tracking can use it. Items: 279 (as of today) GoodbyeAds YouTube A well maintained list containing YouTube hosts used for advertisements. This list helps to block/reduce YouTube ads. Items: 97645 (as of today) ===== By default, AirVPN DNS remains neutral in accordance with our mission. However, you have the option to enforce block lists which poison our DNS, in order, for example, to block known sources of ads, spam, malware and so on. You can manage your preferences in your account Client Area ⇨ DNS panel https://airvpn.org/dns/. We offer only lists released with licenses which grant re-distribution for business purposes too. The system is very flexible and offers some exclusive features never seen before in other VPN services: You can activate or de-activate, anytime, any combination of lists. You can add customized exceptions and/or additional blocks. Any specified domain which must be blocked includes all of its subdomains too. Lists which can return custom A,AAAA,CNAME,TXT records are supported. You can define any combination of block lists and/or exceptions and/or additions for your whole account or only for specific certificate/key pairs of your account (Client Area ⇨ Devices ⇨ Details ⇨ DNS) Different matching methods are available for your additions and exceptions: Exact (exact FQDN), Domain (domain and its subdomains), Wildcard (with * and ? as wildcards), Contain, Start with, End with. An API to fetch every and each list in different formats (see Client Area ⇨ API ⇨ dns_lists service) is active Any change in your selected list(s), any added exception and any added block is enforced very quickly, within few tens of seconds. You don't need to disconnect and re-connect your account. You can define your own lists and discuss lists and anything related in the community forum here Essential requisite to enjoy the service is, of course, querying AirVPN DNS while your system is connected to some VPN server, which is by the way a default setup if you run our software. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff (*) MIT License Copyright (c) 2018 Jerry Joseph Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

You are right! Here "Banks" on our phones enables a wireguard tunnel to a private server (on a router, actually) that would not be on any block list but that would still protect from a MITM wifi AP pretending to be Marriott (they got caught in this situation a couple of years back) or whoever. The application of such a wireguard client config on a router, however, has benefits limited to very special cases only, not worth the energy for most of us. Health aside: average cloth masks are placebos, but good ones (N95, KN-95, KF94, FFP2) worn well (essential) really do help one's odds, as best as my engineering nerdiness can figure out. I ended up with an autoimmune condition from Covid - can't prove it, but the statistical likelihood is clear enough - that's going to affect my life (and further Covid vulnerability) from here out, so I have a bit of an attitude. I don't want my wife, kids, friends, etc. ending up anywhere similar. Good masks would matter more than VPNs to most of our lives long term, and we fuss over getting the VPNs right, so... Anyway, I'm going to wrap up this thread. Been great but we're too far afield now for a general discussion!

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Sao Paulo (Brazil) is available: Fulu. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637 and 47107 UDP for WireGuard. Fulu supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses and 4096 bit DH key not shared with any other VPN server. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor: https://airvpn.org/servers/Fulu Please note that Fulu will replace Peony and Lalande, which unfortunately in the last 6 months performed very poorly. Peony and Lalande are currently down (again). Unfortunately the uptime of Peony and Lalande has become unacceptably low, so we are forced to decommission them. Fulu can replace both servers as our tests confirm that its superior hardware and connectivity outperform Peony and Lalande together. Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Team 

Hello! Unfortunately they have an uptime which is too low. You can see now that they have accumulated, only in 2023, something like 15 days of downtime, a colossal amount. They do not operate according to the minimum standards we agreed on with the provider. What's more, the intermittent but frequent line problems they have been suffering in the last 4-5 weeks have caused our customers inconveniences and led to legitimate contentions, complaints and disputes. By offering a new datacenter from a company which proved to be more reliable in the last 7 years we aim at improving the connectivity quality in Brazil and surrounding South America countries dramatically. Kind regards

Hello! As part of progressive upgrading of our servers and decommissioning of older hardware, we inform you that the Virginis (Switzerland) server will cease operations today, 2023-10-04. The infrastructure in Europe gets on upgrading thanks to the addition of new servers and 10 Gbit/s lines, as well as the improvement of current lines and hardware. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 1 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Berlin (Germany) is available: Taiyi. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637 and 47107 UDP for WireGuard. Taiyi supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses and 4096 bit DH key not shared with any other VPN server. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor: https://airvpn.org/servers/Taiyi Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Team