# Obscura VPN Published articles for Obscura VPN. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## We View Consumer Data as Toxic Waste DevFeed: [We View Consumer Data as Toxic Waste]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Abhishek Prakash Published: 2026-10-03T07:47:16Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [It's FOSS]() Topics: [Virtual Private Network](), [QUIC](), [Security](), [trust](), [Internet Traffic](), [Domain Name System (DNS)]() Tags: [bitcoin](), [consumer](), [data](), [interview](), [logs](), [obscura-vpn](), [quic](), [reproducible-builds](), [trust](), [vpn]() ### AI overview Obscura VPN separates identity from browsing through a two-company relay: its first hop can see the connecting IP but relays traffic encrypted to keys controlled by Mullvad, whose exit servers do not see the user's identity or payment information. The founder says privacy correlation remains blocked as long as either company is uncompromised, while acknowledging the companies could both be compromised. The client uses QUIC, which the founder says resembles HTTP/3 and makes censorship inspection more costly, and the company accepts account-number login without email, plus Monero and Bitcoin over Lightning. The open-source client has an Android reproducible-build prototype; other platforms are still being pursued. The excerpt says users can inspect code and compare the exit-hop key with Mullvad's published list. Obscura still sees connecting IPs, and its service is priced at $8 per month. ### Source excerpt Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough. ## Obscura VPN now offers a desktop app for Linux DevFeed: [Obscura VPN now offers a desktop app for Linux]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Joey Sneddon Published: 2026-09-22T16:50:42Z Content type: news Language: en Sources: [OMG! Ubuntu]() Topics: [Ubuntu](), [Virtual Private Network](), [QUIC](), [Open Source](), [Network](), [Software]() Tags: [desktop](), [gplv3](), [linux](), [news](), [obscura-vpn](), [privacy-tools](), [quic](), [ubuntu](), [vpn]() ### AI overview Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux desktop app with two-step routing through Obscura and Mullvad, plus a QUIC-based stealth protocol intended to disguise VPN traffic as HTTP/3 browsing. The app supports Ubuntu and other distributions on Intel and AMD devices, and its code is now GPLv3 licensed. ### Source excerpt Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app, giving desktop users an easier way to access it (without wrangling Wireguard configuration files). Linux isn't short of VPN providers, but Obscura, founded by former Bitcoin Core contributor Carl Dong, has a different pitch to most. Rather than your traffic being routed through a single provider, Obscura VPN uses a two-step relay: it acts as the 'entry node' (seeing your original IP address) while another VPN provider, Mullvad, acts as the 'exit node' (the websites you visit). Obscura's Linux app also supports the QUIC-based stealth protocol, which disguises your VPN connection as [...] You're reading Obscura VPN now offers a desktop app for Linux, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.