Globus VPN Browser - new - but is it a gimmick - and where is it from?

[Ragnusen Ultred]

Anyone know more about this Globus VPN Browser?
Is it a gimmick?
Where is the canonical site for the globus VPN browser Windows download?

It's seems limited the fully integrated free unlimited bandwidth vpn
(really proxy) browsers on Windows where the ones everyone knows are Opera
and Epic (and I'll list Tor just because if I don't, someone else will -
even though Tor is completely different).

And now I find this new thing called "globus vpn browser".
https://globus-vpn-browser.en.lo4d.com/

But I can't find the canonical download site.
https://epicsearch.in/search?pno=1&q=globus+vpn+browser+windows+download+site

All that finds is cnet, softonic, windowssoftwares, thewindowsclub, major
geeks, appslooker, etc.

Anyone know more about this Globus VPN Browser?
Is it a gimmick?
Where is the canonical site for the globus VPN browser Windows download?

[Paul]

URL is at the very end of the article.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/globus-free-vpn-tor-browser

https://www.vpnbrowser.org/

Once you've read the review, then you won't need that link.

Paul

[Ragnusen Ultred]

In article <news:pcdotg$jbi$1...@dont-email.me>, Paul wrote:

> URL is at the very end of the article.
>
> http://www.thewindowsclub.com/globus-free-vpn-tor-browser
>
> https://www.vpnbrowser.org/
>
> Once you've read the review, then you won't need that link.

Thanks Paul, where there were plenty of "download" URls but none to a
"canonical" site, which is usually a red flag instantaneously (but not
always).

I couldn't get to that second url, https://www.vpnbrowser.org, which just
hung and never got there.

Reading the first review...
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/globus-free-vpn-tor-browser

That Windows-Club review was either machine written or written by a
non-English speaker, which usually is a red flag for a review.

Nonetheless, it says Globus is based on Chrome, has no crapware, no ads, is
reasonably fast, mostly connects to a UK server, so those are all good
things.

On the bad side, does say that globus dropped the connection frequently,
where checking the status with "curl.exe icanhazip.com" won't work for a
vpn browser - so we'd have to use something like whatismyipaddress.com from
the web browser.

Confusingly, it says:
"You can use any browser as there is already a VPN agent running but a
Globus VPN agent with Globus browser (that contains a free firewall as
well) is more protective."

If that's true, then it's not a browser as much as an integration of VPN
with a browser, which isn't the same thing as what Epic or Opera do. It's
merely a free VPN which is a dime a dozen in that you can get a free public
vpn server almost anywhere. And then it's a browser on top of that free
VPN.

At least if it's VPN, then the curl of icanhazip should work too which will
tell you whether the VPN dropped or not.

Thanks for that review.

There's still no canonical site, and the majorgeeks link failed (it was a
dead end).

[Paul]

Archive.org shows the site has existed since 2014.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.vpnbrowser.org

The phone number they use, is ostensibly "UK", but any amount
of redirection could be applied on the destination side. Why have
a UK phone number, if you cannot show a UK street address as well ?
Seems a bit odd. If you wanted to remain incognito as a developer,
it would be better to just list an email address and leave
people wondering. The UK phone number part seems like a false
flag of some sort. (Like maybe only a dude in sales lives in
the UK, while the development is done elsewhere.)

I'm sure using a shovel and a miners lamp, you'll get
to the bottom of this.

Paul

[Ragnusen Ultred]

In article <news:pce6gp$24o$1...@dont-email.me>, Paul wrote:

> Archive.org shows the site has existed since 2014.
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.vpnbrowser.org
>
> The phone number they use, is ostensibly "UK", but any amount
> of redirection could be applied on the destination side. Why have
> a UK phone number, if you cannot show a UK street address as well ?
> Seems a bit odd. If you wanted to remain incognito as a developer,
> it would be better to just list an email address and leave
> people wondering. The UK phone number part seems like a false
> flag of some sort. (Like maybe only a dude in sales lives in
> the UK, while the development is done elsewhere.)
>
> I'm sure using a shovel and a miners lamp, you'll get
> to the bottom of this.

Thanks Paul for clarifying the strangeness of this Globus VPN Browser.
There are enough red flags that I'm not going to try it, even though I
generally have tried almost every free public VPN solution known to
mankind.

This one really isn't "just" an integrated "privacy browser", so, let me
close this thread by summarizing that the following "related" privacy
browsing situations seem to be the short list.

1. Epic & Opera are integrated-proxy/vpn privacy browsers.
2. Tor is something completely different (but with "proxy" overlap)
3. Privacy browser is a catch-all phrase of something different still
4. Attaching a VPN to a Browser is different still
5. And, just using a browser with any VPN is even different still.
6. And using any browser with any web proxy is different still.

I don't know what the names for all those things are, but here's a summary:
1. Integrated vpn browsers
2. Tor browsers
3. Privacy browsing mode
4. VPN
5. VPN-attached browsers
6. Proxies

This thread is only seeking a better integrated-vpn privacy browser.
It seems that Globus just isn't gonna make the short list.

Thanks for saving everyone else the time since they can learn from our
efforts, which is the whole point of any Q&A thread on Usenet.