beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agoProton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.protonvpn.comexternal-linkmessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1203arrow-down1external-linkProton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.protonvpn.combeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 day agomessage-square37linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarebeep@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·1 day ago Source: David Peterson, Proton VPN General Manager.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down1·1 day agoIts a good thing they posted them on inaccessible Xitter in a confusing as fuck “thread” instead of their own God damn website…
minus-squareCris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·1 day agoIts unfortunate they really only name and shame random shovelware vpns it looks like. So it feels difficult to tell whether their points apply to any other real options people have heard of before…
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up23·1 day agoSurely it’s too hard to upload a spreadsheet on the internet.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·23 hours agoSome people just have to complain about everything. Maybe a specific excel format?
Source: David Peterson, Proton VPN General Manager.
Its a good thing they posted them on inaccessible Xitter in a confusing as fuck “thread” instead of their own God damn website…
Its unfortunate they really only name and shame random shovelware vpns it looks like. So it feels difficult to tell whether their points apply to any other real options people have heard of before…
Surely it’s too hard to upload a spreadsheet on the internet.
Some people just have to complain about everything. Maybe a specific excel format?