Google prevents the developer of WireGuard from linking to the donation page of the project from their Android app, threatening the funding of open source apps maintained by independent developers.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268389" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21268389</a>
WireGuard is a great example on how to do marketing for developers. It starts with technical elegance, something that speaks to us. Then great transparency and communication with no bullshit. And finally a lot of hard work.<p>With that in hand, the project will be propagated automatically through organizations where developers have a say in the decision making process.
Slightly off-topic, but related because this happens to me on wireguard VPN through their (excellent) app.<p>It seems like the VPN connection is not shared to devices if I allow them to connect to my phone's hotspot. This is annoying, because I have a number of devices that ephemerally use the hotspot, and for which it is quite a hassle (impossible) to individually set-up and whitelist a keypair. Is this something that would be fixed with the inclusion of Wireguard as an android native VPN protocol?
> Interested Pixel users can take advantage of this kernel acceleration right now by rooting their device and installing the prebuilt kernel module.<p>Neat. I might try that.