RiseupVPN

What RiseupVPN is

RiseupVPN is a free personal VPN for censorship circumvention, location anonymization, and traffic encryption. Available for Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows, it is designed to install and run without configuration or account registration. It routes traffic through an encrypted connection to riseup.net before it reaches the public internet. Riseup presents it as a way to guard against ISP surveillance, block most tracking companies, and bypass government censorship while internet access remains available. The service supports torrents. Riseup says its logs exclude user IP addresses, DNS requests, traffic flows, browser fingerprints, and personally identifying information; minimal logs are encrypted and rotated within five days. The clients are based on open-source Bitmask software. The plan is free, funded by user donations; Riseup estimates its cost at approximately $60 USD per person per year. Riseup warns that traffic may be vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks after leaving the VPN gateway, so secure connections such as HTTPS remain important. The Windows client has no kill switch.