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title: About Veilid
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description: Veilid is an open-source, distributed application framework.
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<p>Veilid (pronounced Vay-Lid, from 'Valid and Veiled Identification')</p>
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Veilid allows developers to build a distributed, private app. Veilid gives users the privacy to opt out of
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data collection and online tracking. Veilid is being built with user experience, privacy, and safety as our top priorities.
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It is open source and available to everyone to use and build upon.
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Veilid goes above and beyond existing privacy technologies and has the potential to completely change the way
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people use the Internet. Veilid has no profit motive, which puts us in a unique position to promote ideals
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without the compromise of capitalism.
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We built Veilid because when the Internet was young and new, we viewed it as an endless and open realm of possibility.
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Instead, the Internet we know now has been heavily commercialized, with users and their data being the most
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sought-after commodity. The only ways to opt-out of becoming the product for billionaires to exploit are either
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too technical for the average user, or to simply not go online.
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We don't believe that is fair; we still haven't given up our dream for the entire Internet to be free
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and accessible without trading privacy to use it.
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We believe that everyone should be able to forge relationships, learn, create, and build online — without being monetized.
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With Veilid, the user is in control, in a way that is approachable and friendly, regardless of technical
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ability. We want to give the world the Internet we should have had all along.
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