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-square34linkfedilinkarrow-up1215arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1197arrow-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-square34linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareSanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down2·1 day agoThis minimizes what actually happened at mullvad. And OP is overblowing the proton trump thing as per usual in these comments. Its exhausting really.
minus-squareDigDoug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·17 hours agoI’m overblowing the Trump thing because I don’t appreciate being advertised to.
This minimizes what actually happened at mullvad. And OP is overblowing the proton trump thing as per usual in these comments.
Its exhausting really.
I’m overblowing the Trump thing because I don’t appreciate being advertised to.