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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by ian-bateman on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:11AM (#24798363)
We are still evaluating the best way to go about this, but yes, we've been looking at the way Brave approaches it as well (though of course, we'd like to do it in such a way that everyone's incentives align / we don't compromise user privacy in any way whatsoever).

Short term, I'm self-funding the company (day job + previous exit of an entirely unrelated company).

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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by dhaavi on Friday October 16, 2020 @03:18AM (#24798402)
Self-funding! This is great, did not expect something like this coming from VC-land SF.

We at https://safing.io/ are also self-funded, but also receive a lot of public funding. Interestingly our visions are very similar, but our technical views seem to differ a lot.

I think monetizing a privacy product without having the user pay is extremely hard. There will need to be an extremely high amount of transparency everywhere.

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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by ian-bateman on Friday October 16, 2020 @02:32PM (#24803624)
Thanks! Yeah it's definitely been a challenge, but I think it's worth the effort to try to make sure we're keeping incentives properly aligned and really get things right before we try to scale up!

> I think monetizing a privacy product without having the user pay is extremely hard. There will need to be an extremely high amount of transparency everywhere.

I would agree with this wholeheartedly -- we're still very early stages, but trying to keep things as open as possible in terms of our tech & intentions with everything.

> but also receive a lot of public funding.

Curious what sources you receive public funding from?

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Re:FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service by dhaavi on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @05:11PM (#24842382)
> Curious what sources you receive public funding from?

We list everything in detail here: https://safing.io/ownership/#influences

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