Years in and year, more and more people around the world are becoming VPN software to demand their privacy online and bypass Internet goat restrictions. However, not all services are the same. Now Obscura VPN, a new provider on the market, has thrown a challenge to the entire industry and promises to “set the standard for the next generation of VPNs.”
Obscura VPN was officially launched on February 11, 2025 and essentially promises to do two things better than its competitors: being “private by design” and “Outsmart Internet limits.”
VPN is only available for macOS at the time of writing. Support for other platforms must be added in the future.
Two VPNs, better than one?
According to Obscura VPN’s founder, Carl Dong, today’s VPN industry comes with some significant shortcomings, with the greatest of the providers’ confidence.
In a blog post, he said: “Basically, the biggest shortcoming of existing VPN companies is that they act as your primary man-in-middle-to see both of your personal info (connect IP, email, billing address, etc.) and your browser story. “
In Dong’s opinion, not even VPNs are without log a complete solution, as even a provider who stays true to its promise, “likes a security breach and becoming compromised.”
We asked DONG for several clarifications on these points as well as about his acquisition of independent non-log revisions, but are still waiting for a response at the time of publication.
What is important to know for now is that Obscura VPN decided to take another route to be more “private by design.” VPN traffic is redirected through two different hops. Unlike traditional multi-hop VPNs, each of these servers is administered independently of two different VPN providers.
Today we are announcing a partnership with Obscura VPN, a newly launched two-party VPN service that uses our Wireguard VPN servers as “exit hop”. Read more here: https://t.co/bxwn9houh511 February 2025
To do so, Obscura VPN has collaborated with one of the most secure VPNs on the market, Mullvad VPN.
Obscura’s servers act as a post-hop encrypting your Internet connection via the Wireguard protocol to later forward it to Mullvad-operated exit servers. It is then the second VPN provider (Mullvad) that technically connects you to the Internet.
“This splitter ‘, who you are’ from ‘what you do’, which means none of the parties can bind your identity to your browsing,” explains Dong.
Obscura VPN actually claims that it can never decrypt your traffic. Also, Mullvad should not be able to view your personal information associated with your account.
In addition, Obscura VPN does not require your name, e -mail, phone address or any credit card info to sign up, reducing the amount of users’ data collected.
A new censorship -resistant technique
As mentioned earlier, Obscura VPN also promises to be better than its competitors by bypassing censorship and avoiding VPN blocks. To achieve it, it uses Quic (Quick UDP Internet Connections), a newer Internet protocol designed for maximum security and speed.
According to DONG, Quic is better than the current VPN provider technologies as it is mixed with normal Internet traffic while avoiding performance problems that can affect TCP connections (transmission control protocol).
In addition to the technical conditions, many VPN providers invest in their censorship-resistant features to stay ahead of the game against still sophisticated censorship tactics.
For example, NordVPN has recently released its new censorship-resistant NordWhisper protocol, which uses web tunnel technology designed to mimic normal web traffic. Proton VPN also revealed a few major updates to its service during the summer to double its fight against censorship, including extension of support to its very own stealth VPN protocol on Windows.
While only time will show whether Obscura VPN can really overlook hard censorship better than its competitors, it is certainly interesting to see another solution that develops in this room.
Today is the day: Obscura VPN is now available! @Obscuravpn is the first VPN to:- Cannot log your activity of Design-Outsmart’s network filters We think Obscura sets the standard for a new generation of VPNs and hope you will check it out! 👇 Links + more in thread pic.twitter.com/biqbwxhavm11 February 2025
Currently, Obscura VPN only offers its provider as MAC VPN – this means that if you use different devices, wait a little longer before you can test it out.
The server network is also quite slim compared to other VPN providers. These include a few locations between Canada and the United States, some European countries (France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and Britain) and less than a handful in Asia (Japan, Singapore and Turkey). Again, it is said that the team will soon work to add more locations.
You can subscribe to a reduced price right now of $ 6 per day. Month instead of the general cost of $ 8.
Although it is too early to say whether Obscura will eventually get its place among the best VPN apps, it is worth mentioning that the software is completely open source. This means that anyone with some technical knowledge will be able to lift the cap up and look at its code to see if it really does what it claims.
