HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT: Obscura VPN is now on Windows 🥳

To celebrate, we're offering 25% off any Obscura subscription or top-up with code WINDOWS26

THAT'S NOT ALL: Every user now gets 5 simultaneous devices! (up from 3 before)

👇 Links below




Obscura is now on Android, iOS, and macOS with Linux coming soon.

🔗 Our website: https://obscura.com
🪟 Windows download link: https://obscura.com/download/windows/

📝 Windows blog post: https://obscura.com/blog/introducing-obscura-windows/

Not ONLY are they monitoring you outside but if you don't like it and post about it online, they'll monitor you there and hand that data to law enforcement.

https://www.404media.co/the-government-is-monitoring-anti-flock-tiktok-and-instagram-accounts/

I hope that OEMs are mad about this and start putting Linux on their products by default.

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/amid-ram-price-hikes-microsoft-reportedly-raises-windows-license-cost-forcing-oems-to-hike-prices-even-further-on-hardware

Volkswagen blocked their app on GrapheneOS, LineageOS, and other custom ROMs.

They claim it's for "security" because the app now relies on Google's Play Integrity API and certified Android standards.

Meanwhile, the same app still works fine on Android 10 devices that stopped getting security updates years ago.

https://cybernews.com/privacy/volkswagen-grapheneos-app-issues/


Android 10 received its last official security update from Google on March 6, 2023.

EU officials are trying to revive (again) private chat scanning after Parliament voted it down.

Scanning everyone’s messages treats 450 million people as suspects and threatens end-to-end encryption.

Stand against chat control and mass surveillance.

They’ll try again and again. Don’t give them an inch. Or, as Europeans would say, don’t give them a centimeter.

https://reclaimthenet.org/brussels-could-reopen-the-fight-to-scan-your-private-chats

I've seen a lot of talk about cloud computing for gaming, my personal take is:

If I didn't own the hardware, I just wouldn't play the game.

Obtainium (and similar tools like F-Droid, direct APK installs from GitHub releases, etc.) will continue to work normally on GrapheneOS.

It's awful that Google keeps locking down Android, but it's Google.

https://keepandroidopen.org/en/

For anyone wondering how to download Obscura WITHOUT Google Play Store!

All you need is Obtainium -> add app and the following in the screenshot:

Obscura VPN is now on Android.

To celebrate, we're offering 25% off any Obscura subscription or top-up with code ANDROID26!