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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 05/07/2018, 03:42:12 UTC
Remember you can access our new Windows client via our Discord news channel.
https://discord.gg/bWqA2CF

Our new OSX client is still within development and we will make annoucements once this has been released.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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on 08/06/2018, 17:24:59 UTC
We have just recently made a major update to our windows client. We plan to push out the below updates very soon but until then you can download our test build provided in our discord group in the news channel if you would like to try any of these features out!

  • - Bypass restrictive firewall rules wth Stunnel
  • - Bypass mobile data limits and firewalled internet access
  • - Utilizing ONE of the most secure encryption algorithms for key exchange ECDSA384 / SHA384. This algorithm is also used in Bitcoin and Ethereum which make it highly reputable.
  • - Adblocker, block advertisement networks without the need to install any sketchy 3rd party plugins for your browser.
  • - Malwareblocker, block unwanted ip addresses/domain names that has proven to be malicious.
  • - Beacon animation improved.
  • - Improved quality of the UI components.
  • - Fixed random disconnects.
  • - Implemented encryption of all DNS traffic, prevent spying, spoofing and MiTM attacks (man-in-the-middle attack)
  • - DNS logs are removed frequently. No data are collected or distributed from the DNS server.
  • - Increased the DNS lookup speed.
  • - Fixed soft reset issue, disconnected after 1 hour.
  • - Implemented handling for drops, sleeps and other connection issues.
  • - Switched from AES-128 to AES-256-GCM

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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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on 23/05/2018, 05:12:36 UTC
Our VPN servers are still online and running smoothly. We're still under beta development and are working on adding new features to our client and website.

That's interesting - I was just thinking about this a few days ago and wondering how it was turning out. Glad it's still going well. Is there any roadmap or idea on when this will become a paid/freemium service?

We are hoping within June we will become a premium service. We are still developing features for Windows & MacOS.
We will make announcements on social media, discord, and forums once we have transitioned into a premium service.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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on 03/05/2018, 11:51:30 UTC
Our VPN servers are still online and running smoothly. We're still under beta development and are working on adding new features to our client and website.

Remember to follow us on social media for announcements regarding Whoami VPN.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhoamiVPN
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/whoamipanama
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/whoamivpn
Discord: https://discord.gg/bWqA2CF
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 25/02/2018, 13:37:03 UTC
If anyone has any questions or needs support in regards to our service, please feel free to contact us.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 26/12/2017, 16:28:29 UTC
In the beginning of next month,  1-5 December new servers will be added. There will be at least added 1 server in each of these locations: Singapore, San Francisco, and Frankfurt.  We will add 1-2 more servers based on what the majority of our users want so please suggest one or multiple locations, thank you!

Are you looking for suggestions to add a server to an existing location or to add a server to a new location? In the former case, in my experience, Switzerland is one of the best locations you could possibly add servers to. I know for a fact that many people, especially those in Europe, use Switzerland along with the Netherlands for their VPN. In the latter case, I would like to suggest adding different locations inside Russia. Different places in Russia can result in much different latencies out of the sheer size of the country.

Yes, I am looking for suggestions to add more servers in new locations. Switzerland and Russia will have the highest priority as these locations seem to be very popular. Singapore will also be added. Unfortunately, we might not get these additional locations added before the end of December as we are getting a little delayed with the desktop client development.

In my opinion, and depending on the demographic that you are targeting, you should be placing more emphasis on the actual service than on the desktop clients. Of course, I do not actually know exactly what your development team is working on, but VPN clients already exist, and given how your VPN is OpenVPN-hosted, you could easily just use the OpenVPN client as the desktop client. You could also add features to your VPN service such as intranet communication before the internet (assuming you don't already support it).

Hello, sorry for the late reply.

The available OpenVPN client lacks many nice-to-have features. we still have a long way to go before all our features are implemented. We will implement different things such as; a way to bypass firewalled internet access and kill switch. I believe we will have to resources to begin on this in January as it's expected to have a full-time employee there. We have made many improvements to the MacOS X client in regards to stability and usability but none of those changes have been released to the public yet.

We decided not to add any more servers this month as there are some things we want finished/improved first.


We have also stumbled across this project, https://mysterium.network/ and it looks very interesting at a first look. I will spend some of the next days to see if this is technology is something we somehow can utilize in our software.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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on 03/12/2017, 21:33:59 UTC
In the beginning of next month,  1-5 December new servers will be added. There will be at least added 1 server in each of these locations: Singapore, San Francisco, and Frankfurt.  We will add 1-2 more servers based on what the majority of our users want so please suggest one or multiple locations, thank you!

Are you looking for suggestions to add a server to an existing location or to add a server to a new location? In the former case, in my experience, Switzerland is one of the best locations you could possibly add servers to. I know for a fact that many people, especially those in Europe, use Switzerland along with the Netherlands for their VPN. In the latter case, I would like to suggest adding different locations inside Russia. Different places in Russia can result in much different latencies out of the sheer size of the country.

Yes, I am looking for suggestions to add more servers in new locations. Switzerland and Russia will have the highest priority as these locations seem to be very popular. Singapore will also be added. Unfortunately, we might not get these additional locations added before the end of December as we are getting a little delayed with the desktop client development.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 25/11/2017, 13:59:34 UTC
In the beginning of next month,  1-5 December new servers will be added. There will be at least added 1 server in each of these locations: Singapore, San Francisco, and Frankfurt.  We will add 1-2 more servers based on what the majority of our users want so please suggest one or multiple locations, thank you!
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 05/11/2017, 13:39:34 UTC
I like your services but I wanted to ask you one question. How do you make money when you aren't charging for your services? You must have servers which need to be maintained  on regular basis. Without charging you can't afford to run those for more months.

The maintenance is not too bad. We make money from our fulltime jobs and the monthly expenses are minimal, so we can easily afford to run this. The service has been up since start August.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 03/11/2017, 22:29:40 UTC
I'll give it a try.A paid VPN is not exactly safer than a free one anyway.And I understand its market strategy providing free services.
I wish you success in the business.

A paid service might not necessarily be safer or more secure than a free one, but usually when you pay for a service, the tier for which you pay gives you a guarantee for some sort of level or tier of service (for example, a certain amount of bandwidth or speed on a VPN such as this one) and the service provider is more dedicated towards maintaining that tier. Of course, this is going to vary depending on who we are talking about, but given what I know so far about WhoAmI, I feel good about purchasing from them.

Feel free to PM me once a paid version is out!

I will remember to do this, and thanks!

Beta phase, only a few servers can be choice, I give a little test and have no any problems. Personally, I feel that the UI is pretty cool.

I'm glad that you liked the UI and had no issues using the VPN. If you have any suggestions please let us know so we can improve it.

I think that most of all this service will be enjoyed by users from Russia. Therefore, will wait for the addition of servers that are closer to them.

We can add a server closer to Russia if you or anybody else has suggestions to the location please let us know.



NOTE: We slowly add new functionality to the VPN and fixing known bugs. The MacOS client got new functionalities, a settings page where there is a variety of options for configuration of the VPN - It's not released yet but it will be out soon.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 29/10/2017, 14:13:06 UTC
What's the incentive for you to provide a free VPN service? I've seen a lot of free VPNs in the past get busted selling customer data. I honestly just can't trust someone that offers a service for free, it's suspicious.
Please note that we are currently in BETA. I have already answered a similar question to yours, this was my response:

"Yes, you are the product but being the product is not always a bad thing! The VPN is free because it helps us grow the number of users registered faster, thus we get more exposure as people probably are more likely to recommend us to their friends as we offer a free service in that moment and the users help us with finding bugs, improve the overall usability and suggest new features."
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
by
kavinsky
on 29/10/2017, 12:31:44 UTC
I registered at your website and downloaded the configuration file given by your system on your website. I can confirm that it, indeed, works just fine. The speeds are a bit on the slower side, but that is to be expected from a service that is being provided to the user for free.

I only tested the USA location so the experience might be different for different servers depending on which one you choose. Everything seems to be running fine, however, and even though the speeds aren't that great, the latency is actually pretty low compared to other VPNs I have used in the past. I will report back if I find out more.

You might experience a better speed by using UDP as using the TCP protocol for a TCP based application can result in double performance loss.

We will eventually upgrade our servers to provide a faster connection for our users. Thanks for the feedback!

I will be trying out connecting through UDP instead of TCP soon, although I am not the biggest UDP fan. I did use the VPN recently again and I was utterly surprised by how much lower the latency was compared to other VPNs. I know it is not a matter of location, as I am comparing this to similar VPNs near the U.S. Whatever it is that you are doing in order to keep latency to a minimum, it is working wonderfully. I have yet to try out VPNs at other locations, but I don't expect anything different. We'll see how that goes. Is there any ETA on when you plan to go paid?

We still have some minor issues we are trying to improve, these are both server and client related. There will be paid plans in the very near feature, can't give a reasonable ETA yet but we will keep you updated.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
by
kavinsky
on 28/10/2017, 10:51:35 UTC
https://whoami.li is a canonical for https://whoamivpn.com I don't have any issues accessing through https://whoamivpn.com is there something I have overlooked?

That's strange. Attempting to connect to the .com on my normal ISP results in a reset connection error, but accessing it via my current VPN provider allows for the request to go through. Same goes for wifi (same ISP) vs. mobile data on my phone.

I didn't really think about trying different modes of access when testing the .com in my last post. It's just me, then.

Never heard of anything similar to this yet. It sounds indeed very strange. Maybe it's a cache problem, try flush DNS cache.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 26/10/2017, 14:55:24 UTC
I'm always in favor of new bitcoin VPN services, especially ones that are conscious about the community and make strong efforts to be compatible with them/us. If the UI is what's posted on the homepage, I'm already a fan of the design - especially the transparent number of users per server.

How's the pricing going to be like after the beta phase is over?



Also: it seems like the WhoAmI website is located at [ https://www.whoami.li ] instead of the [ https://whoamivpn.com ] listed in the first post of the thread. The second link is broken. Smiley
We have not fully decided the pricing yet. Our pricing will, of course, be competitive and justified by the amount of 'advanced' features we will be offering at that moment. We will soon release a new update with more features and better error handling. Thanks for your kind words.

https://whoami.li is a canonical for https://whoamivpn.com I don't have any issues accessing through https://whoamivpn.com is there something I have overlooked?
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 26/10/2017, 10:11:37 UTC
I registered at your website and downloaded the configuration file given by your system on your website. I can confirm that it, indeed, works just fine. The speeds are a bit on the slower side, but that is to be expected from a service that is being provided to the user for free.

I only tested the USA location so the experience might be different for different servers depending on which one you choose. Everything seems to be running fine, however, and even though the speeds aren't that great, the latency is actually pretty low compared to other VPNs I have used in the past. I will report back if I find out more.

You might experience a better speed by using UDP as using the TCP protocol for a TCP based application can result in double performance loss.

We will eventually upgrade our servers to provide a faster connection for our users. Thanks for the feedback!
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 25/10/2017, 21:38:24 UTC
Hello, there. I am currently looking among several VPN options and came across this one. I was wondering, is it possible to use your VPN without having to download your software, like a regular PPTP connection through the built-in operating system options? I would like to stay as far away as possible from downloading software and it is one of my pet peeves with most VPN services. Also, will it only work on OSX and Windows or will it also work on mobile phones, etc.? Any plans to expand on this? I would rather have a VPN with a small company such as yourself than with big ones who probably care less about their customers.

Hello, we do not offer PPTP atm but I think we can add it in the near future. Right now we are only using OpenVPN so if you don't wanna use our VPN client you can download the OpenVPN config from the user-panel and use OpenVPN itself. This works on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, and iPhone. If you have any questions or need help drop by our discord (link in thread) and we will gladly answer any questions you may have. You can also email us, please check out the website for contact details.

Thanks for considering us.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 24/10/2017, 22:32:11 UTC
We have just updated our Privacy Policy, can be found here: https://www.whoami.li/privacy - it should answer most privacy-related questions.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 21/10/2017, 19:17:39 UTC
Interesting thing. I've connected to web-site over VPN with IpSec encryption. But "site" wrote that my connection is " unprotected" .
Another question i have is - how you can guarantee that "no logs" ? As i remember sometimes ago PureVPN share logs to FBI, even they are also guaranteed anonymity, no logs, etc.
It will only show protected if you are connected to one of our servers. Maybe we should name it something more logical as its purpose might be interpreted differently

In regards to no logs, you can only take our word for that. PureVPN decided to cooperate with the FBI for some odd reasons + they lied to all of their customers. It's a difficult matter to prove that we don't log our clients


Interesting thing. I've connected to web-site over VPN with IpSec encryption. But "site" wrote that my connection is " unprotected" .
Another question i have is - how you can guarantee that "no logs" ? As i remember sometimes ago PureVPN share logs to FBI, even they are also guaranteed anonymity, no logs, etc.

Only really one way around complete control and its to setup your own VPS. Logs are going to be kept as a protection and control for most VPN companies. Its like the KYC rules people have to obey or get hit hard with fines.
Presume the worst case and you will be more so prepared for inevitable issues.

And here the problem is you are probably the only one using it, so you are not as anonymous as if 100's of people were using the same server. VPN companies in Panama are not required to fulfill the KYC by Panamanian law.

Almost all VPN companies keep records, there is no problem keeping records. Are there ads on the VPN?? The ads are sometimes very annoying. I will install the VPN according to whether it is an advertisement or not.
How there is no problem on a VPN keeping records? Why would you use a VPN if you don't care about your privacy (which is what you are saying)? Should Tor start keeping logs aswell?

I wouldn't use this service for nothing in the world. Even a few major VPN providers in the world have been found keeping logs and cooperating with the FBI or governments. Imagine what a random and free "VPN provider" will do with your data... Remember: "If you don't pay for the product, you are the product".

You can't just generalize because there are a few rotten VPN companies. Yes, we are nobody right now, so why should people trust us over some VPN provider paid to be featured in PCMAG, The New York Times or some other news magazine. Our VPN service is going to be free until we can provide a satisfying and bug-free experience for our end users after that we will offer paid plans with access to better servers and more features.

Yes, you are the product but being the product is not always a bad thing! The VPN is free because it helps us grow the number of users registered faster, thus we get more exposure as people probably are more likely to recommend us to their friends as we offer a free service in that moment and the users help us with finding bugs, improve the overall usability and suggest new features.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 21/10/2017, 15:38:19 UTC
great what if i used this in playing CS GO sir this can be possible sir?
Possibly. It depends on your location. We only have servers in Netherlands and USA right now. If you live too far away from these locations your latency might be too high.
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Re: FREE VPN [OS X/Windows] - WHOAMI VPN - 6 LOCATIONS - FREE NOW
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kavinsky
on 20/10/2017, 11:23:50 UTC
Almost all VPN companies keep records, there is no problem keeping records. Are there ads on the VPN?? The ads are sometimes very annoying. I will install the VPN according to whether it is an advertisement or not.


There are no ads nor do we plan to add that. We will never present 3rd party ads for any of our users on the desktop or web app.