In a digital swamp swarming with thousands of VPNs, most “free” ones are straight-up cons—data-leeching predators peddling your info to shadowy brokers. Remember, when you use a VPN, you’re ditching trust in your ISP and handing it to the VPN instead—so you’d better pick one that’s legit. Bitmask is always free to use, and only works with trusted providers, unsung heroes like Riseup.net and The Calyx Institute—privacy defenders who’ve been quietly building tools to fight surveillance and safeguard your online turf for years.
In this attention economy, your data is the currency, and surveillance capitalism is the greedy bastard coming for your info! Governments, ISPs, and soulless corporations are tracking, collecting, and cashing in on every move you make online, exploiting your life for their profit. Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) help protect you from this tech dystopia. Bitmask is an open-source VPN app with no accounts, no logs, and no tracking. Just a dead-simple, third-party-audited tool to keep your online life more private, fight back against surveillance capital, and make the internet a little more free.
Politics, culture, and information access exist in a continuous feedback loop—control the flow and you shape the narrative. Authoritarian regimes know this well, building digital walls to restrict access to the open internet. Bitmask has censorship-evading technology. Plus, the system powering Bitmask is a self-hostable solution. Individuals or crews can build their own private, circumvention-focused VPNs. Connect to these providers through Bitmask using a quiet URL or an invite code, and you can climb over the walls.
Founded in 2012, LEAP is dedicated to giving all internet users access to secure communication. There are many fronts in the fight against the enclosure of the internet and the relentless efforts to surveil and monetize our lives. LEAP is part of the growing effort to expand the use of circumvention technology to protect us from government and corporate incursion into our online lives. LEAP builds and brands RiseupVPN, CalyxVPN, and Bitmask. https://leap.se
We’re at our best when the community jumps in. Many of our current team members started by submitting patches and squashing bugs that bugged them too.
Code, Bugs, and Fixes
Dive into our developer docs:
https://docs.leap.se/ Check out code, project plans, and more on our Gitlab instance—or find us on Github.
Translations & Localization
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Let’s Chat
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