AnonGuard. Is it legit? - eviltoast

I saw this app had been added recently. It claims that “ANONguard anonymises the Internet connection. In the process, the IP address of the smartphone is hidden with the help of the AN.ON anonymisation service (https://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/).” Is this real and does what it says? The “anonymisation service” link gives an error to me.

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    10 months ago

    Jon-Do-Nym is a paid proxy provider with a similar structure to Tor. But nodes aren’t hosted by volunteers, they are hosted by themselves. There was one free server the last time I’ve tested it and it was a German IP in Dresden. Speed was slow. And afaik they do log user IPs.

    Wouldn’t recommend them. I would use a VPN like Mullvad combined with Tor. But maybe a VPN or Tor alone is sufficent in your case.

    Edit: Looks like there was an option to selfhost nodes (link doesn’t work anymore), the whole project looks dead too (old website, old entries). And no info about the AN.ON app…