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feat(data): add Bolt VPN - #399
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Overview
Bolt VPN is Galixo's VPN, with 10M+ installs on Google Play plus iOS, Windows and Chrome/ Edge extensions. Galixo goes by three companies depending on where you look: GALIXO (SMC-PRIVATE) LIMITED in Rawalpindi publishes the Android app, Galixo L.L.C-FZ in Dubai sells the iOS app, and the website's signed by Galixo LLC at a Wyoming registered-agent address. Nobody's named anywhere, and the contact page gives its HQ as "123 Cybersecurity Avenue, Tech City".
The "no logs" claim is shaky. The policy the Android app links to only covers the website and never mentions VPN logs, so timestamps, bandwidth and source IP are
null. The site can't agree with itself on much either: 4, 5 or 10 devices, 80 or 21,000+ servers, and 50M+ downloads against Play's 10M+. It promises "complete anonymity" and "anonymous payments" but only takes cards and PayPal, somisleading_claimsis true. The Android app (2.7.9) has WireGuard, OpenVPN, IKEv2, Shadowsocks, split tunnelling and a kill switch toggle, and comes with a lot of ad SDKs (Unity, ironSource, Mintegral, Vungle, InMobi, Meta and Pangle).trackersis left out because Exodus wasn't answering.Its sister app "VPN - Secure & Fast VPN Master" is the Gravity VPN Pro that its policy still names.
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Bolt VPN privacy policy ↩
Bolt VPN terms and conditions ↩
Bolt VPN iOS privacy policy ↩
Bolt VPN iOS terms of use ↩
Bolt VPN on Google Play ↩
Bolt VPN on the Irish App Store ↩
GalixoAI ↩
Galixo app site ↩
Gravity VPN Pro privacy policy ↩