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Perk #1
Regain your freedom of internet if your country blocks access to essential services.
Perk #2
Prevent your ISP (Internet Service Provider) from being able to collect which domains you visit, and using that data to build a profile on you to be sold.
Perk #3
Prevent your torrent history from being public information, which anyone can see.
Unsupported
Appear as though you are in another region, to access geo-restricted content.
Domain Privacy (Explained)
Conventional VPN providers try to create this impression that yourISPcan see everything you do, and that you're completely exposed without a VPN. This is actually misleading.
Nobody can see the actual content or full URL thanks toHTTPS/TLS, only the domain names are exposed - otherwise data packets can't be delivered, like an envelope without an address. For example, if you visitedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewf-8rx9_uQ, no intermediary can see which page you visited specifically - they only know you visitedyoutube.com. Even withEncrypted DNS, domain names are still exposed, like via theSNIfield in theTLShandshake.
If you don't want yourISPor network admin (e.g. a hotel) knowing which domains you are visiting, a VPN revokes their ability to see that. This is because the data packets get encrypted and put in another data packet, with the VPN server as the address. In this sense, a VPN server works just like a package forwarding service, relaying the inner packet for you.
Torrent Privacy (Explained)
If you download torrents from public trackers, your torrent activity becomes public knowledge. Anyone who is on your home WiFi (like friends or family), or who knows your home IP address (like yourISP), can see what has been downloaded from there, whether it's a Linux ISO or a public domain film. This moves that activity away from your own IP address, because now your torrents are downloaded / uploaded through the VPN server, along with everyone else's torrents.
A VPN is the right tool for casual torrenting from public trackers. If your torrenting needs become heavier (say, over 500GB a month consistently), or you use private trackers, a VPN stops being the right tool for the job, and what you want is a seedbox instead.
Region Spoofing (Explained)
Region Spoofing is unsupported because it depends on whether the service wants to deny VPN users or not, which is easy to do from their position. This is because the site or service you visit is the actual destination, not an intermediary like yourISP. When yourISPreceives your packets, they forward them to a server (our VPN server). When we forward the inner packets, the site's server receives them from our server. So a quick IP address lookup will show your request is coming from a datacenter, and VPN servers tend to live in datacenters, unlike actual people.
Additionally, fingerprinting makes it easy for services to know โit's still youโ even if you enable a VPN, so it's easy to deny service to anyone who's IP address has suddenly changed countries in an unrealistic amount of time. These techniques make it easy for a service to deny VPN users, if they really wanted to. For this reason we cannot officially support region spoofing, because we cannot guarantee every service will be accessible.
Edge #1
Some VPN providers like to market their jurisdiction as a selling point, relying on their country's privacy laws. But laws inevitably change. We don't need to hide behind a country's laws, because we don't rely on those laws to safeguard your privacy. We created Cloak Engaged as a zero-knowledge system, by deciding that having nothing to protect in the first place is far better than keeping some data on you and needing to rely on an external padlock like legal jurisdiction. Simply put, we could hand over whatever we have to anyone if compelled - and they would still have nothing.
Edge #2
Conventional VPNs have an app, which gives access to all servers in all regions. This is actually a vulnerability, because all it takes is one government employee to attach a network sniffer to a device while using the VPN app, and collect the IP addresses of the routing servers, and then block them for everyone, which is why we don't do it.
Since our supported use cases don't require having instant access to a multitude of regions, you get VPN passes that are assigned to designated VPN servers. And those passes can be put on any device using the open-source WireGuard app which is available on all platforms.
Edge #3
With our VPN enabled, even when devices were going in and out of WiFi coverage, or switching between WiFi and cellular, or left all-day and all-night with the VPN enabled, we found no DNS leaks in our testing. You are welcome to test this yourself using tools like dnsleaktest or ipleak.
Edge #4
Many VPN providers try to create this impression where hackers are out to get you, and that you're unprotected without a VPN, when in reality a VPN isn't actually needed for security when you practice basic security hygiene. They advertise that your internet provider can see everything you do, and that you're completely exposed without a VPN, when in reality it's limited to the domain names. We find this misleading, but it gets worse - many of the big providers are morally bankrupt.
Edge #5
We made our VPN as affordable as possible, whilst also delivering premium-level performance. Unlike conventional providers, we don't make our 1-month plan ridiculously expensive just to make the 2-year plan look like a better deal - just to lock you in. Instead, we make our 1-month plan more affordable than most long-term plans from other providers, so that you're free to change providers anytime.
No personal info collected.
No traffic monitored.
No logs generated.