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Free cross-platform VPN without login account or payment

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Free, no account, cross platform privacy-respecting VPNs are disappearing.
Q: What free no-account no-registration cross-platform VPN do you use?
A: ?

Slowly the free cross-platform VPNs that don't require payment or
registration account are dwindling, which is too bad because the instant
you pay for anything or the instant you create an account, your privacy is
toast since everything you do is logged to that transaction forever.

It's the same reason why only operating systems which don't require a
mothership account offer any chance of providing any modicum of privacy.

Looking up free no-account VPNs, apparently these three pop up recently
that "supposedly" offer binaries for macOS/Windows/Linux (some are FOSS).
 1. CalyxVPN (wireguard, free, no account)
 2. RiseupVPN (wireguard, free, no account)
 3. VPNGate (openvpn.exe, free, no account)
 4. ? any others ? 

Apparently, unlike free OpenVPN VPNs, each requires a specific app
 1. CalyxVPN apparently no longer has cross platform app downloads???
     <https://calyxinstitute.org/>
    I can only find the Android Calyx free no-registration VPN binary.
     <https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.calyxinstitute.vpn/>
 2. RiseupVPN does seem to have cross platform app downloads
     <https://riseup.net/en/vpn> {macOS/Windows/Linux/Android}
 3. VPNGate VPN works on all platforms using openvpn.exe & a config
     <https://vpngate.net>
 4. ? any others ? 

Note that Psiphon, Tor, Snowflake, Warp, etc., are different things, but
note that if anything requires an account, then it's worthless for privacy.

Also note that CloudflareWarp (free, no account) is not a privacy VPN.
 <https://one.one.one.one/> {macOS/Windows/Linux/Android,iOS}
But it does change your IP address to a Cloudflare IP address.
The exit node is likely the nearest Cloudflare server to your location.
 curl icanhazip.com will show a Cloudflare IP
It's kind of like a region-locked proxy tunnel to Cloudflare.
 curl ipinfo.io/org
  AS13335  Cloudflare, Inc.
So while a VPN completely replaces your network identity, Warp will use a
Cloudflare server near you, so your network location won't change by much.

Other than those above, what free cross platform VPN sans login do you know
about, so that everyone on this newsgroup can benefit from your knowledge?

Note: We don't need a lecture that if it's free then you're the product
because that simply means you don't understand what a VPN does. Likewise,
we don't need a lecture about the security of various VPNs as that's a
topic that ignores that every person has varying requirements.

When I talk about VPN, I'm mostly talking about proxies with encryption.
You want to hide your network ID but we're not doing anything illegal.

All you want is basic privacy from your ISP and from the final location.
-- 
Of the thousand things we need to know about privacy, most know only 3.

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Free cross-platform VPN without login account or payment Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-06-16 02:09 -0500
  Re: Free cross-platform VPN without login account or payment Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-16 08:20 +0100
    Re: Free cross-platform VPN without login account or payment Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-06-16 02:44 -0500
  Re: Free cross-platform VPN without login account or payment Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-06-16 12:00 -0500
  Re: Free cross-platform VPN without login account or payment JJ <jj4public@gmail.com> - 2026-06-17 14:30 +0700

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