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Posted by u/hritik7742 3 months ago
Show HN: I built a free VPN that runs directly in Chromechromewebstore.google.com...
I built a lightweight VPN Chrome extension called QuickVPN Proxy that connects instantly without signup or configuration.

I made it because I was frustrated with VPN apps that require accounts, slow down the browser, or log user data. QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser and connects with one click.

wordglyph · 3 months ago
Is this running thru your own servers you control? What country are they based in? What is the pricing after 15min? And what methods of payments do you accept?

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bertman · 3 months ago
>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

What does that even mean? This AI-coded extension uses a Cloudflare worker to generate API keys for the proxy service "webshare.io". It then uses the Chrome proxy API (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/api/p...) to set up a Webshare proxy server.

>or log user data

Webshare.io log everything they can, as expected (https://www.webshare.io/privacy-policy)

hritik7742 · 3 months ago
So what am I doing wrong in this? Like, what's the issue?
bertman · 3 months ago
Your description is not accurate and quite misleading.

>QuickVPN runs entirely in your browser

Like I said: What do you mean with this? You did not build a "VPN" that runs in the browser. Your extension sets up a web proxy.

And worse:

>or log user data.

You're implying you're running some kind of "no log" service which is false.