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By default, the browser will always be free. You should be able to browse anonymously and control your data without paying. Currently the VPN is applied to the

by tenta 10y ago

By default, the browser will always be free. You should be able to browse anonymously and control your data without paying. Currently the VPN is applied to the browser only, so we're thinking of charging to switch the VPN on for device-wide protection. Without getting ahead of myself too much, but we can also consider offering other security and privacy extensions and customization, such as custom dns or your own server location.

niij 10y ago
How is this free?
- tenta 10y ago
  You'll always be able to browse on Tenta securely and anonymously for free. And it's not just your traffic that is encrypted, but think about all the other browsing data that is traditionally not hidden such as your bookmarks, downloaded files or even keeping tabs open to view later. We encrypt and block access to ALL of your browsing data. And again this is what the free version offers. Most browsers are ad-based and their business model is your data. They may add new privacy tools, but they have an identity crisis and can never go all in on protecting your data. We are not ad-based at all, so we can provide uncompromising support to protecting your data instead and that will be our business model. To pay our bills, we are considering offering premium support for people who want to expand our VPN service to all other apps on their device. We will look into partnerships to sell other privacy tools and browser extensions. In fact, we already have interest from other startups to customize our browser to work behind their own firewall, so we can offer custom browser support as well. So there are a variety of viable options that we're excited about and selling your data will never be one of them.
  - niij 10y ago
    Okay, so paid subscriptions is how you'll remain free. Got it.
PeCaN 10y ago
If the browser will always be free, what is your business model? (No offense, but I just get very skeptical of “security” products that are ‘free’.)
- RussianCow 10y ago
  If the browser will always be free, what is your business model? The answer is in the third sentence of the parent comment: Currently the VPN is applied to the browser only, so we're thinking of charging to switch the VPN on for device-wide protection.

by tenta 10y ago

niij 10y ago

How is this free?

tenta 10y ago
You'll always be able to browse on Tenta securely and anonymously for free. And it's not just your traffic that is encrypted, but think about all the other browsing data that is traditionally not hidden such as your bookmarks, downloaded files or even keeping tabs open to view later. We encrypt and block access to ALL of your browsing data. And again this is what the free version offers. Most browsers are ad-based and their business model is your data. They may add new privacy tools, but they have an identity crisis and can never go all in on protecting your data. We are not ad-based at all, so we can provide uncompromising support to protecting your data instead and that will be our business model. To pay our bills, we are considering offering premium support for people who want to expand our VPN service to all other apps on their device. We will look into partnerships to sell other privacy tools and browser extensions. In fact, we already have interest from other startups to customize our browser to work behind their own firewall, so we can offer custom browser support as well. So there are a variety of viable options that we're excited about and selling your data will never be one of them.
- niij 10y ago
  Okay, so paid subscriptions is how you'll remain free. Got it.

PeCaN 10y ago

If the browser will always be free, what is your business model? (No offense, but I just get very skeptical of “security” products that are ‘free’.)

RussianCow 10y ago
If the browser will always be free, what is your business model? The answer is in the third sentence of the parent comment: Currently the VPN is applied to the browser only, so we're thinking of charging to switch the VPN on for device-wide protection.