MASQ dVPN & Browser on Base

Today marks the ignition - sparking the Private Gateway to the Internet we desperately need Open Access Freedom Open AI-Ready Data Private, Secure, Borderless We are building it today For all of our tomorrow Learn more at our X Space at top of the hour with @Timpi_TheNewWay - LINK BELOW👇

@Tendo442 well said! 👏

First class is an understatement We are the only class On the last ride to freedom Hop on, we are getting out of here

Our big news from @handshakecon is still fresh! @HNS domains @Timpi_TheNewWay search First-class results in MASQ Browser Not a workaround. Not a plugin. Built on the same foundational principles as HNS itself

📢 MILESTONE PARTNERSHIP with Timpi We’re joining forces with @Timpi_TheNewWay to bring decentralized DePIN powered search to the MASQ ecosystem! 🔒🌐 Our first integration will bring Timpi's world leading search index to users, with only a few clicks within the MASQ Browser experience No censorship. 🙊 No tracking. 🔍 Just freedom. 🚀 This is one of many more initiatives, as we forge our way TOGETHER to build the new internet.

@W3Vibes Use @MASQ_ai!

Full block of Telegram in Russia just started Both mobile and desktop versions don't work, even with a VPN. Durov's biggest market is off. TON is watching this closely 👀

@janoslav @Timpi_TheNewWay @EndTheCB People need freedom of access - and we building it!

@Timpi_TheNewWay @EndTheCB Amazing collaboration with @MASQ_ai to bring uncensored, unbiased internet to the people!!

Paid placements. Algorithmic bias. Hidden agendas. That's not search — that's a curated reality. Timpi indexes the open web. Nothing more, nothing less.

Congrats to @Timpi_TheNewWay for their milestone launch!🎯 Search Beta is now live for Timplars! We have added early support in the MASQ Browser latest release! 🔥 Why this is a big deal: - One of largest search index, rivaling Bing! - No tracking - No data collection - No search history sold Two projects. One mission. A freer world wide web. MASQ × Timpi = Privacy-first internet

By 2030, these technologies define the world: privacy encryption decentralization self-sovereign identity digital ownership peer-to-peer networks local-first open source censorship resistance personal AI protocols, not platforms sovereignty over convenience. Not Big AI, mass surveillance, or digital feudalism.

"Gotta extract em allllll" "Info-gon" Remember - if the product is free, YOU are the product

@paoloardoino @Excellion "Someone" = a proactive movement of systemic control at highest levels Appreciate you & Tether push here - this is exactly the type of proactiveness we need to rally around in tech! We cannot stop

Someone wants to kill the dream of free internet. And AI was born already in captivity. Tether is committing significant resources and more to make sure communications and intelligence shall remain free as in freedom.

@NeutaroGuardian @Timpi_TheNewWay We have to push those changes now, so the future of the internet stays bright and open - not closed, dark and Orwellian! 🫣

@Timpi_TheNewWay Free market and good competition is healthy! Excited about how @Timpi_TheNewWay and @MASQ_ai are changing this space and the future ahead!

Worried about a future where a few tech giants control the digital world? The AI age makes this a scarily real possibility. MASQ & Timpi are building alternatives and need your feedback and support to show there's another way. Find out more about the MASQ x Timpi product merger. Link in comments 👇

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UK government wants mandatory age verification on VPNs! ("rules for thee, but not for me") The core misunderstanding from law-makers... Decentralized networks like MASQ have no central logging to enforce that on. No database. No single point of regulatory capture. You can't ID-check infrastructure that doesn't have an user identity layer. 🔒

🚨The government is coming for your VPN. We cannot let them destroy online anonymity in the name of "safetyism". As part of their consultation on online safety, the government is considering plans to force mandatory age checks on Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). As @OpenRightsGroup has rightly pointed out, this would have virtually no impact on children's safety online - it does nothing to fix the toxic addictive algorithms that actually drive online harms. But it would destroy online anonymity for all of us. To enforce such a plan, every adult in the UK would be forced to hand over personal IDs or biometric data to private companies just to access a basic privacy tool. 🛡️VPNs are not loopholes; they are essential shields. They are used by journalists, whistleblowers, and everyday citizens who want to protect their data from hackers on public WiFi or avoid corporate surveillance. Stripping away our right to use them anonymously is a massive step toward a fully surveilled panopticon. Read the full @Independent piece below. ⤵️ independent.co.uk/extras/indybes…

@jzachx79 🤝🤝

@MASQ_ai nice

Our founder speaking from behind the MASQ 🔵 This massive shift in product & comms is just the tip of the iceberg 🌐

@handshakecon @Timpi_TheNewWay @HNS It sure is - we are building resilience at a time where we all need it most in the digital age 🌐

Attention: Anyone with a handshake/ website Your discoverability problem? Solved. @MASQ_ai and @Timpi_TheNewWay are making HNS sites searchable again. Decentralized search + private browsing. This is huge. 🤝 @HNS

@SOOOOOOOOOO_DAO @VitalikButerin @FLI_org @RAILGUN_Project @fileverse @rotkiapp @walletbeat @ethdaily @ZKPassport @theInterfold @SimpleXChat Thanks for the shoutout! Yes we on Base - permissionless privacy browsing

@VitalikButerin @FLI_org Gib to @RAILGUN_Project @fileverse @rotkiapp @walletbeat (we tested recently) @MASQ_ai (recommended by someone at base) @ethdaily @ZKPassport @theInterfold @SimpleXChat

There are often posts mentioning that I donated a very large amount of funds to @FLI_org years ago and connecting me to various policy actions that they take. I thought I would make clear the record both on the nature of my connection to them, and on similarities and differences between my approach to the AI risk topic and theirs. First, what happened: * In 2021, I received a large amount of SHIB and other dog coins, seemingly because the creators wanted to use "Vitalik owns half our supply" as a marketing tactic and be "the next Dogecoin" * The tokens quickly rose in value, and at the peak the "book value" of those tokens was over a billion dollars * I felt that surely this was a bubble, it would pop quickly and the price would drop massively, and so I scrambled to retrieve the funds from my cold wallet (this included things like calling my stepmother in Canada and asking her to go into my closet and read out a 78-digit number, and then adding it to a different 78-digit number transcribed from a paper in my backpack). I sold what I could for ETH and donated to relatively more "normal" things (eg. $50m to GiveWell). But then I was still left with lots of SHIB * I sent half to @CryptoRelief_ (half of _those_ funds ended up supporting Balvi, and the other half is being spent by @sandeep and team on improving medical infrastructure in India). I sent the other half to FLI * At the time, they presented me with a comprehensive roadmap that focused on improving all major existential risks (bio, nuclear, AI...) as well as general pro-peace and pro-epistemics (ie. helping us know the truth in adversarial contexts) initiatives * I thought that surely they would cash out at most $10-25M, because there's no way the SHIB market is deep enough to cash out more * Instead, they managed to cash out ... something like $500M (same with cryptorelief) * Since then, FLI had an internal pivot by which they started focusing on cultural and political action as a primary method, quite different from the original approach. * Their justification is that the situation has changed greatly since 2021, AGI is coming very soon, and their pivot is needed to affect the world fast enough, and to counteract the lobbying warchests of large AI companies. * My worry is that large-scale coordinated political action with big money pools is a thing that can easily lead to unintended outcomes, cause backlashes, and solve problems in a way that is both authoritarian and fragile, even if it was not originally intended that way. * For example, their primary approach to biosafety has been "how do we put guards into bio-synthesis devices and AI models so that they refuse to create bad stuff?". I view this as a very fragile solution: there are many ways to jailbreak, fine-tune or otherwise get around such restrictions. Ultimately, putting all your eggs into this strategy can lead to very dark places like "let's ban open-source AI" and then "let's support one good-guy AI company to establish global dominance and don't let anyone else get to the same level". Approaches like this VERY EASILY backfire: they make the rest of the world your enemy. * More generally, historical experience tells us that when regulations are made on dangerous tech, "national security" orgs (today, realistically incl Palantir) inevitably get exempted, and in fact those very same orgs are a major source of risk (see: pandemic lab leaks typically coming from government programs). This is something I worry about. * My approach on these topics has been centered around d/acc: build the tech (eg. air filtering, early detection, continuous passive PCR-quality air testing, prophylactics etc for pandemics, greatly improving software and hardware verifiability for cybersecurity...) to help us survive a much higher-capability world safely, and open-source the tech so that the entire world can freely incorporate it. * This is the sort of thing that the ~$40m I recently allocated is for. A big part of that pot is for secure hardware, which is good both for Ethereum users who do not want to lose their coins, and for humanity if we want ubiquitous computer chips to not be hackable (incl by AI) and spy on us. If I had the FLI warchest and tweet-chest, I would use it to do more of those things. * I have shared my difference in perspective with them on several occasions. * At the same time, I've also been heartened by many of @FLI_org 's recent moves. I think the "pro-human AI declaration" ( humanstatement.org ) is a very good philosophical path forward. It unites conservatives, progressives and libertarians, America, Europe and China, people worried about unemployment, surveillance, psychosis and paperclip doom, atheists and the Pope. They have also been researching ways to avoid concentration of power resulting from AI. These things are all good. I wish them best of luck on these positive initiatives, and hope that they operate with the caution and wisdom that their task deserves.

@erwingroen Thanks - lots more to come! 👏

Awesome news! Thanks for sharing! #Masq #MasqBrowser #dVPN 🤝

@olabero @handshakecon @KauriHero @Timpi_TheNewWay @HNS Thanks 👏

@MASQ_ai @handshakecon @KauriHero @Timpi_TheNewWay @HNS Very nice

Missed our session at @handshakecon last week? Founder @KauriHero announced that Handshake domains will be indexed by @Timpi_TheNewWay — meaning @HNS domains will appear in decentralized search results for the first time, to be launched through MASQ Browser! The full video session will be posted soon The naming layer + the search layer + private browsing layer

@EndTheCB @handshakecon @KauriHero @Timpi_TheNewWay @HNS Many thanks - so many moves towards a proper user-first internet future

@MASQ_ai @handshakecon @KauriHero @Timpi_TheNewWay @HNS impressive work 🦾🦾🦾