DEAL NEWS – Get the protection of a VPN and more without the monthly subscription with the Deeper Connect Mini, now at the low price of $189.99 (reg. $349), a savings of 45% only through July 14, 2023.
It’s disappointing yet unsurprising to learn that we’ve all got too much of our personal information floating around. According to The Washington Post, one company was now even selling the aggregated mental health records of thousands of people as part of a database for interested retailers.
Safeguarding yourself and your personal information needs to be a top priority – and that protection begins at home. Deeper Connect Mini is the next stage in the evolution of the VPN, a decentralized Virtual Private Network that offers the security and protection of a VPN without subscribing to a VPN service.
While VPN users shroud their identities by connecting to the web via a provider’s secured web connection, Mini creates that gateway independently. Utilizing blockchain technology, Deeper Connect establishes a stable connection to the web while keeping any of your identifying data safely anonymous. It also has a robust seven-layer enterprise-grade firewall, protecting every Wi-Fi-connected device on your network.
Deeper Connect is like throwing a shield over your entire home. Everything from phones and tablets to IoT tech like speakers, TVs, or even smart appliances gets full Deeper Connect Mini protection, so no one can ever spy on you through those often vulnerable devices.
Its secure and protected connection is constantly optimized and rerouted for the best connection possible, bypassing the slowdowns that often tie VPN users up. Along with features like full ad-blocking capabilities (even YouTube ads), one-click parental controls, the 2.5-inch Mini connects with a pair of Ethernet cables, and virtually no tech know-how is needed.
And you’ll never see a monthly subscription for VPN use again. Everything needed for a lifetime of protection is included in your one-time-only purchase price.
You can get the Deeper Connect Mini Decentralized VPN and Firewall for just $189.99 (reg. $349) if your order by 11:59 p.m. PT on July 14, 2023.
Prices subject to change.
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You leave out the main reason people use vpns and that is to not be traced. Such that they can go out and download movies or music and not have cease and desist and riaa actions directed towards them. Does the deeper connect mini protect against that? Because blockchain is usually a way of making data transparent, not hide it, which is what most people using VPN want to do.
In the news article, Jessica wrote “Utilizing blockchain technology, Deeper Connect establishes a stable connection to the web while keeping any of your identifying data safely anonymous. It also has a robust seven-layer enterprise-grade firewall, protecting every Wi-Fi-connected device on your network.”
I think that answers your question.
The answer is kind of yes and no. See my full length comment for details, but in a nutshell, you become the VPN server for other users of this product, and you use them as the server. Their traffic will be decrypted by this box and sent out to your ISP, looking like you sent it.
Which means that even if you have no interest in doing illegal things with this, other people can use your network to do illegal things. And it will look like you did them. You could take the fall for another person’s piracy, or worse.
And if you do want to do illegal things with it, what’s stopping the RIAA from buying a bunch of these and running their own nodes and monitoring them? Don’t be fooled by all the talk of security, if they do this they can monitor all the traffic that’s leaving the boxes unencrypted. If you try to pirate something using one of these and it goes to one of their nodes, they’ll know what you’re doing, and they’ll know your IP.
Nomad,
Thank you for your comments! I allowed this deal to be posted because I know people are interested in VPNs, but I didn’t know that there could be “bad” VPNs like it appears this one might be. I’m going to go edit this post and add a warning to make sure that people read the comments that you’ve left.
Julie, when do you plan on updating (or even better just removing) this post? It’s been more than a day if these timestamps are correct.
I wouldn’t ask too many questions and decide it is a scam and move on.
When a marketing copy is this weak, it is just sad.
I say tom fooey to that!!!
It’s a scam. If you go to the linked website you’ll find a suspicious lack of detail about how this is supposed to work. They just claim it uses the blockchain… somehow. That’s a giant red flag right off the bat.
I’ve been looking around the webpage linked here as well as another one that’s linked to from their youtube account, and I know how it works. You aren’t going to like it. Anything like this still requires remote nodes to connect to to decrypt your traffic and forward it to your desired destination. VPNs use managed servers. This devices uses your network, and the network of other users. It’s a peer to peer system, just like bit-torrent. Your traffic will end up going to someone else’s home, their box will decrypt it, and it’ll come out of their network. And their traffic might come out of yours.
They’re not honest about this because nobody wants to do this. If they did, they could just use The Onion Router, or TOR, which does this purely through software. There are too many problems with this kind of system. First off, your traffic is only as secure as the other users. They’ll be able to see your traffic and where you’re sending it. If any of them are interested in spying on traffic, they’ll have a bonanza of traffic to look at, sent by people who think they’re being secure. Secondly, they’re using your network too. Do you fancy the idea of random strangers using your network to do possibly illegal things? Do you fancy the idea of law enforcement showing up at your door, thinking you were doing something illegal? Do you want to explain to them that you weren’t the one doing it, it was just this box? Many ISPs monitor users for signs of illegal activity. If someone else tries to use your network to torrent copyrighted material, your ISP might cut you off for violating their terms of service.
But on a more practical level, your performance is going to be awful. Most ISPs give you more download than upload bandwidth. You can expect this will apply to most users of it, who will have to use that limited bandwidth to send everything back to you. Sure, you might have the downstream bandwidth to stream a 4k movie, but do you have the upstream? Do you think the people you’re connecting to will? If they can’t do it, then your dreams of streaming netflix from other countries will be in vain. You might have gigabit fiber straight to your home, but if the node you’re connecting to doesn’t, you’re stuck with their limited upload speeds. Which, again, are usually lower than their download speeds. You might find yourself with only a 10 megabit connection instead. Or worse.
On the other hand, if you’re one of the people who live with an ISP that imposes bandwidth limits on them, this box will drain your bandwidth.
I don’t care what you intend to do with a VPN. But if you need one, for any reason, get a real one. They’re not expensive and they’ll give you far better performance, and they won’t put you at risk of being arrested for someone else’s crimes.
As someone who has supported and used the product since their genesis connect (and now use their picos and have installed devices in all of my family member homes) I can say that this is legitimately not a scam. The hardware is continuing to progress and the software is updated via patches on a monthly basis to reflect security and improvement upgrades. The community on discord is active and responsive.
I have not experienced network throughput limitations and my tunnels are global. You can specify specific countries, per application, that you want to target to receive specific content; again, never experienced network bottlenecks and stream everything at highest resolution.
You’ve identified good points for torrenting and software solutions that have been around for a while. The key point to consider with deeper is that there is a “Torrent” and “Porn” enable/disable section. By default they are set to block those types of connections and sites with an extensive black list built in. If an ISP confronts any activity you can reference your logs and the source IP for the request; I’ll refer you to discord for a more elaborate scenario/explanation.
Lastly, DPR leverages the blockchain to incentivize its users for their uptime and participation. By maintaining uptime, a user will receive daily rewards in the form of DPR. Think of this like being paid out a small portion of a subscription fee from end users that aren’t hosting for the network. I’m sure there are probably other integrations, but that’s the main one that peaks my interest.
Please join discord and ask your questions to be informed on the project. I hope to see you there. I am not a paid member of the team; simply a user.
You’ve given no proof or evidence greater than “Nu huh. I pinky promise it works. It gives upgrade improvements and pays you to use it”. First off, “upgrades” are improvements, so you’re comment has built in redundancy, and the fact that someone pays to use their device just throws even more shade. “Think about it like being paid a subscription fee by those not hosting for your network”? Precisely, because you are the one holding the bag. Errr, at least that’s what is sounding more and more like.
The ambiguity is thick here. Like trying to figure out what the cereal tastes like but everyone is only talking about what the box looks like.
Where’s the CNET review?
EXACTAMUNDO where’s the damn CNET review!! Thank you!! 🙌🏼 🙌🏼
I first ran across this thing on Amazon and I’m not gonna lie at first it sounded pretty kewl but then I kept reading the description……. No freaking wayyy 👎🏼
This article is a random technology term compiler. It took today’s top 10 technology terms, removed the #1 term ‘AI’ to keep people from catching on, then added easy to read text as filler fluff.
It’s a million dollar product in the making.
Can this thing bypass blocked websites like YouTube or Facebook and so on…?
ME and NOMAD are 100% correct, shoot 1000%!! This is most definitely not a thing to be trusted at all and also what RAWZY is leaving out of their “review” is along with their rewards benefits or what have you there’s also the option of being rewarded by sharing bandwidth that you’re not using….. umm how about nooooo!!! I’m not okay with bouncing anything I’m doing, whether fully legal or not, off others signals and I am most definitely not okay with having someone else do the same with mine!!! 👎🏼 👎🏼 🚫🚫