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Swedish virtual private network company\u00a0Mullvad VPN is adding QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard to help users get around firewalls and censorship, the company said in a blog post earlier this month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
WireGuard is an industry-standard VPN protocol that’s both lightweight and effective, using strong cryptography while also being speedy. QUIC obfuscation is a technique that disguises online usage as regular HTTP\/3 web traffic, making detection more difficult, since HTTP is seen as normal internet usage.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Don’t miss any of our unbiased tech content and lab-based reviews. <\/em>Add CNET<\/em> as a preferred Google source.<\/em><\/p>\n “HTTP is generally not blocked by state-level censors, since much of the internet would be unreachable without it,” Mullvad’s blog post said.<\/p>\n A representative for Mullvad didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read more: <\/strong>Best VPN Service for 2025: VPNs Tested by Our Experts<\/p>\n The VPN industry is highly competitive and growing rapidly. It was valued at $41.33 billion in 2022 and is expected to grow to $151.92 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research.\u00a0<\/p>\n Multiple players in the space are fighting for the Best VPN title, many of whom heavily advertise their services online, such as ExpressVPN, NordVPN and Surfshark.\u00a0<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong>\u00a0ExpressVPN Adds Siri, Widgets and Shortcuts to Its iOS App<\/p>\n Mullvad VPN seeks to set itself apart by being very privacy-focused. As governments around the world crack down on civic unrest, online privacy concerns and pornography, VPN usage is soaring in certain markets as a response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Swedish virtual private network company\u00a0Mullvad VPN is adding QUIC obfuscation for WireGuard to help users get around firewalls and censorship, the company said in a blog post earlier this month.\u00a0 WireGuard is an industry-standard VPN protocol that’s both lightweight and effective, using strong cryptography while also being speedy. QUIC obfuscation is a technique that disguises<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[1753,4010,13211,13209,12727,13210,11831],"class_list":{"0":"post-21522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-adds","9":"tag-censorship","10":"tag-firewalls","11":"tag-mullvad","12":"tag-protocol","13":"tag-quic","14":"tag-vpn"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}