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Consider Lantern

Open jigar-f opened this issue 1 year ago • 6 comments

Consider Adding a lantern to the Vpn section (Lantern censorship circumvention tool) to provide internet freedom to everyone in need. you can find more info at https://lantern.io

Here is open source repo link-:https://github.com/getlantern/lantern-client

jigar-f avatar Aug 16 '24 07:08 jigar-f

cc @offa

jigar-f avatar Aug 16 '24 10:08 jigar-f

Thanks for your suggestion.

After a brief look, the project contains proprietary Google components, advertisements, and trackers. Is there a version without all of these?

offa avatar Aug 16 '24 14:08 offa

hey @offa Thanks for getting back to us Yes, we do have advertisements, but not sure about Google components and trackers, Could you please elaborate?

jigar-f avatar Aug 16 '24 15:08 jigar-f

According to Exodus there are 3 trackers. Additionally Google GMS is proprietary and as far as I know, at least the two listed Google services are too.

offa avatar Aug 17 '24 18:08 offa

According to Exodus there are 3 trackers. Additionally Google GMS is proprietary and as far as I know, at least the two listed Google services are too.

Just an FYI, microG is a FOSS implementation of GMS, so GMS isn't necessarily proprietary.

IsHacker003 avatar Mar 15 '25 11:03 IsHacker003

Just an FYI, microG is a FOSS implementation of GMS, so GMS isn't necessarily proprietary.

You can't expect someone having microg on it's system since it requires non trivial modifications of the system and/or a custom ROM.

You may get around with replacing it, but GMS itself is proprietary.

offa avatar Mar 16 '25 12:03 offa