CumulusVPN

Private internet, no account, no logs. CumulusVPN runs on the decentralized Flux network — no central servers, no company in the middle. Free forever at 100 KB/s. Full speed for ~$0.99/month, paid in FLUX straight from your wallet. → cumulusvpn.com

CumulusVPN 1.3.3 + gateway 0.4.5: Premium bursts to 200 Mbit/s, holds 50 Mbit/s steady, data caps stay at zero. Same subscription, more throughput — update to 1.3.3. You pay $0.99/month, not by the gigabyte.

A kill switch means traffic moves only inside the tunnel. CumulusVPN 1.3.3: routes drop, the switch holds; your address changes, the switch holds. Test yours: load an IP page, switch Wi-Fi to mobile, watch it stay. Downtime is fine. Leaks are not.

When @mullvadnet retired its public DNS on Nov 2, CumulusVPN moved users to Quad9 automatically: instant, silent, nothing to reconfigure. Your DNS traffic shows your habits, and whoever runs the resolver reads it. Ask your VPN who answers your lookups.

CumulusVPN 1.3.3 and gateway 0.4.5 are live. Premium: 200 Mbit/s bursts, 50 Mbit/s steady, no data caps. Still 10 FLUX a month. The free tier stays at 100 KB/s. Speed you can measure beats speed you were promised.

Most kill switches work fine until your phone changes networks. CumulusVPN's kill switch holds through route drops and Wi-Fi-to-cellular roaming. Test it yourself: drop Wi-Fi mid-session and watch the tunnel hold. An untested kill switch is a rumor.

One number is a headline. Two numbers make a spec. CumulusVPN Premium: 50 Mbit/s steady, 200 Mbit/s burst, no caps, no asterisk.

Your DNS shouldn't break because someone else retired a service. Mullvad (@mullvadnet) ended its public DNS Nov 2. CumulusVPN 1.3.3 migrates that setting to Quad9 automatically — nothing to do, and Settings confirms Quad9. Infrastructure changes; your defaults shouldn't.

A kill switch is tested when the network moves under it. Route drops, mid-session country switch, multi-hop, Stealth, DNS: CumulusVPN on Android holds through all five. Change country mid-tunnel and nothing leaks. One that only holds on quiet networks is a gap with branding.

CumulusVPN 1.3.3 is out: 50 Mbit/s steady, 200 Mbit/s burst, no data caps. The Android kill switch holds through route drops, country switches and multi-hop. Live on Google Play now; the iOS App Store update is on its way.

Same person, same hour: webcam taped over, airport Wi-Fi joined without a thought. We defend what we can picture. Everything else gets a shrug. What's the one thing you encrypted on purpose this year?

58% of deployments on Flux are now private or encrypted, per the November census from @RunOnFlux. Encryption is the expectation now, not a checkbox. A default is a promise you don't have to read.

Google, Microsoft, @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI will honor one shared IETF robots.txt policy token for AI training. Publishers set crawler preferences once for many bots. OpenAI says coming months; Google and Microsoft say 2027. Consent arrives at the speed of the slowest crawler.

You could scroll past the ads in search results. In AI answers, the Sponsored slot already matches organic click-through — the ads learned to finish your sentences. Which default do you flip first on a new device, and why?

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic now say they will honor the IETF robots.txt policy token. Meta signals support. The dates run from "coming months" to 2027. Every company in the deal has a timeline. The user doesn't. Consent on the crawler's calendar is a courtesy.

Privacy isn't a feature. It's the floor. CumulusVPN: your identity is a key generated on your device; only its public half leaves it. Three transports. Stealth: WireGuard over TLS on port 443. Exits are independent @RunOnFlux nodes in dozens of countries. The rest is paint.

The IETF's robots.txt policy token: one preference, set once, honored across many crawlers. OpenAI says coming months. Google and Microsoft say 2027. Permission with a waitlist. Privacy by config file is a promise; encryption is math.

The assistant takes a commission now: Google's AI Mode ads expanded to 10 more countries, and sponsored clicks are already level with organic listings. The answer and the ad share a font. We sell a tunnel, not a recommendation.

A permission is a spare key. We hand it over once and never ask for it back. Which one did you actually review last: camera, microphone, location?

Airport Wi-Fi is an open network shared with everyone at the gate. Anything unencrypted is readable by the room, and a fake access point looks exactly like the real one in the network list. The Wi-Fi is free; the exposure isn't on the receipt.