Privacy Made Private

Obscura’s design centers around this simple smoke-test: “If someone put a gun to our team, are we able to give them your traffic information?”

Normal VPNs have the capability to track your activity and know your identity, including “no-log” VPNs. This means that users (often unknowingly) are actually trusting their VPN’s pinky-promise that they won’t be tracked. This is also why some privacy-conscious folks will tell you not to use a VPN at all.

Obscura is different. We can’t correlate your traffic and your identity, ever. It’s simply impossible by design. Obscura also works everywhere, whilst normal VPNs don’t work in restrictive or hostile network environments.

Obscura can only see the IP address you’re connecting from and basic payment information.

We can never correlate that information with your traffic and we never log your IP address.

We actively support private payment methods, like Bitcoin and Lighting.

Don’t trust — verify. We’ll be open-sourcing all of our client code so you can look at the source code and verify that we’re doing what we say.

We also have plans to make reproducible builds of our apps, meaning anyone can audit anything and everything we publish.

Multihop VPNs claim they’re more secure because they direct your traffic through multiple servers. But the same provider still controls all of the servers, which means they can correlate your identity with your traffic.

In Obscura, we only control the first hop and use blind third-party relays for the exit hop. The result is that we can never correlate your identity with your traffic as we don’t even see your traffic in the first place!

We have immense respect for the Tor project (please donate to the foundation if you can), but its slow speed and frequent network-wide DDoS attacks make it infeasible for everyday use.

Obscura has most of the benefits of connecting via Tor but is optimized for everyday use by being much faster and more reliable.

Of course. Drop us an email at business@obscura.net