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Commerce · February 25, 2025

URnetwork

Say goodbye to your VPN and hello to a P2P powered web

URnetwork launched on February 25, 2025 with 233 votes, #159 of 5,999 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

We’re rebuilding the internet so that you can say goodbye to your VPN and never again make the tradeoff between the content you want and privacy. Introducing URnetwork, a decentralized network powered by direct connections to people around you.

This website is provided by BringYour, Inc. , a Network Operator for the UR protocol. Visit ur.xyz for the independent protocol. Whole-internet encryption, powered by people. Welcome to URnetwork. Your traffic is encrypted on your device and routed through a mesh of community nodes. No single node sees the full path. No logs stored. Privacy by architecture, not promise. A traditional VPN asks you to trust them with your traffic. URnetwork doesn't. Your traffic routes peer-to-peer through community-run devices, with Tor-like anonymization. No logs. 100% open source and reproducible so you can verify it yourself. Real positive sentiment from people running URnetwork on every kind of device,…from ur.io

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