Dispelling Myths of VPN Alternatives w/ Safing!

VPNs, Tor, SPN, decentralized VPNs - so many tools! But how do they stack up against each other!? Tune in to this exclusive interview with Safing to answer my (and many of the community’s) questions! Notice: Throughout this interview (up until the end) I generally ask about Safing’s SPN, which is a similar tool to many decentralized VPNs and should offer insight into the differences between VPNs, dVPNs, and Tor. With that said, I explicitly ask about dVPNs towards the end of the interview, and there is a 10 minute discussion about it - use the timestamps to follow along! Safing was kind enough to share 50 trial codes with our community! If you want to test it out yourself, leave your all-time favorite privacy/security tool on this post on our forum: Other resources: SPN vs VPN: Our Portmaster Review: 🔐 Techlore Homepage: 🕵 Go Incognito Course: 🎧 Surveillance Report Podcast: 📹 Odysee: @techlore:3 📹 PeerTube: Connect with others in the privacy community: 💻 Techlore Forum: 🐦 Twitter: Ⓜ️ Mastadon: @techlore 👾 Discord: Support our mission to spread privacy to the masses: 💖 All Techlore Support Methods: 🧡 Patreon: 🪙 Monero: 49H4jTvUY5zaX8qLpVBstJFR7ayTMxxU3UyWpGqUoBM4UzM2zwUHA2sJ9i3AhQYdaqhFmS8PDfWKn1Tea4SKU6haMTXG8qD Notice: Throughout this interview (up until the end) I generally ask about the SPN, which is a similar tool to many decentralized VPNs and should offer insight into the differences between VPNs, dVPNs, and Tor. With that said, I explicitly ask about dVPNs towards the end of the interview, and there is a 10 minute discussion about it :) 00:00 Introduction 01:43 What is the SPN? 04:50 How does the SPN compare to a traditional VPN? 08:18 Is this all decentralized? 10:04 What phase of development is the SPN in? 11:42 How does the SPN compare to the speed of a VPN? 15:04 Summarizing SPN vs VPN 15:41 Covering SPN’s multi-identity system for multiple IP addresses across connections 20:08 Geoblocking perks of the SPN 21:10 How does the SPN compare to Tor? 24:13 Issues with Tor & how Safing attempts to fix some of those issues 26:12 Speed of SPN vs Tor 28:08 Summarizing VPN vs SPN vs Tor 30:28 Integration & history of the Safing ecosystem 34:21 The golden question: Decentralized VPNs - are they legit?! 45:10 Wrapping things up 46:44 Fun announcement for sticking to the end :) #safing #VPN #techlore