Serious Discussion HideAway VPN—Introducing Custom Rules!

rashmi

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What is a custom rule?
Custom Rules let you define your own rules for filtering traffic. Each filter can redirect traffic, using ports, IP address, website or process name. (blocking and ignore coming soon)

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How do custom rules work?
In HideAway, click the Custom Rules button and you'll be taken to the screen with 3 sample rules, which you can delete/replace.

The rules run in order of precedence from top to bottom, so rules at the top take precedence over rules under them. DOMAIN rules take precendence over PROCESS, PORT and CIDR

DOMAIN = any website domain or subdomain. eg netlfix.com or docs.google.com
PROCESS = any application on your PC. eg chrome.exe or notepad.exe
PORT = any port on your PC. eg Port 8080.
CIDR = any IP address in CIDR notation, and must be /32 notation. eg 192.168.1.19/32 to target just that IP. To easily calcuate a CIDR for an IP address or IP address range, visit https://www.ipaddressguide.com/cidr

Note: Some local ports and IP addresses are already ignored by HideAway so as not to interfere with printers etc

Note: These rules are a work in progress, next we'll be adding ALL (your entire computer) and then you can run individual rules above that. Then the ability to Ignore and block, edit and change order of a rule.

Usage: Click the Plus (+) icon to add a rule, and the trash icon to delete a rule.
When you switch between Custom Rules and Preset Rules, HideAway will switch the connection to what ever Rule(s) is displayed on the screen.

 
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Sorrento

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Used to be a fan of HideAway, as it was significantly faster than other VPN's & still have a license - It's no longer the fastest as Proton, AdGuard, OVPN among others for me are faster & most of the time with HideAway you are limited to a single server in your country & if that has issues ... Version 5 has some interesting features though I'm not sure how many users will implement them or know how to?
 
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Sorrento

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HideAway doesn't use Wireguard or OpenVPN & ues own system but it does connect almost immediately, & according to the website no logging, and logging is not possible? - According to the forum the fastest available in the UK for example works out around 950meg after losses but its pretty constant - The company is based in New Zealand - There isn't a trial as such but you can try it for a while before the speed degrades. It's worth a try - The developer Nick answers questions pretty fast on the forum.
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rashmi

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In my experience, HideAway is just as fast as other VPNs. The instant connection is something I like. I also don't recall encountering captchas with HideAway, unlike with other VPNs I've used.
 
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Zero Knowledge

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Wow I haven't seen this software in 15 years! It's still alive? This was the software before Vpn's became mainstream pre 2008.
 
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Its worth a try, I prefer Proton but its not a bad VPN at all & as rashmi says I never had many issues with captchas either - There was another VPN with a similar name maybe that is no longer around though.
 

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