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  • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This just sounds like Orbot in VPN mode, which we already have from The Guardian Project.

    Am I missing something here? Is this going to be better or different?

    Edit: this article is weird, trying to sell VPN affiliates but acting like Tor VPN isn’t available yet. But it is:

    https://support.torproject.org/tor-vpn/

    Edit 2: you can’t run Orbot in Advanced mode over TorVPN, for those apps that you already configured to only connect to a specific proxy port over 127.0.0.1. No Tor over Tor. Would have been funny if it worked though.

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      It’s currently in beta so I’m guessing that’s just a step towards a 1.0 release.

      • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Any idea if there’s a reason for there to be a second app though? If you have Orbot already, it shipped with the same defaults as TorVPN, and in my opinion Orbot is already decent-looking and easy to use.

        Maybe it’s better for this to be a first party app, but right now I don’t know what they’re going for.

        • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Yeah not really sure tbh but it’s a long time since I’ve used orbot. I’ve just downloaded the beta from fdroid so I’ll give it a whirl.

          Edit: looks like it’s a rust rewrite. From the fdroid page:

          Built on Arti: Tor VPN uses Tor’s next-generation Rust implementation. That means safer memory handling, modern code architecture, and a stronger security foundation than legacy C-Tor tools.