I'm sure most of you all know about the VPN false marketing and the fact that they really don't make you "private" (
https://www.privacyguides.org/basics/vpn-overview/). That's a whole other can of worms. VPNs are specialized tools for encrypting your traffic on unprotected networks, bypassing basic georestrictions, and hiding your traffic from your ISP. Most people don't know this and use them because they believe they are a quick way to hide themselves from big tech. For the few who dig deeper and find out about Tor and true private browsing, many give up due to its complexity. Safing believes they have a solution. Their SPN (Safing Private Network) is something in between a VPN and Onion routing. Like a VPN, it can route all internet traffic through its SPN, including TCP and UDP. However, it also routes your traffic through nodes, similarly to Tor. Here is their whitepaper with more details:
https://safing.io/files/whitepaper/Gate17.pdfOn top of all this, Safing seems to be transparent and tinfoil hat friendly. All in all, I am interested to see where it goes, though I have not been able to test it personally.
What do you all think?