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by g_simonsson 3156 days ago
Because people currently pay for VPNs, and Orchid effectively provides some of the features of VPNs, with the added benefit that there is no central VPN provider who logs your (meta) data and sells it for profit.

And as Orchid is a P2P market place with no middlemen or fees, it should find a market equilibrium that is more efficient than VPNs, with a lower price per data relayed.
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woodandsteel 3156 days ago
>people currently pay for VPNs, and Orchid effectively provides some of the features of VPNs, with the added benefit that there is no central VPN provider who logs your (meta) data and sells it for profit.

When you roll Orchid for use, I think this should be stated prominently on the web page as a way of selling it. Something like "If you are like millions of people, you use a vpn. But vpns have some problems" and so on.

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tlrobinson 3156 days ago
Does Orchid somehow prevent malicious exit nodes from inspecting/manipulating traffic? (requiring traffic be encrypted?)

I'd consider that to be worse than the risk of a semi-trustworthy VPN provider keeping logs, depending on your threat model.

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