beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days 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-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up1241arrow-down122file-text
arrow-up1219arrow-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-22 days agomessage-square43linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squarebeep@piefed.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·2 days ago Source: David Peterson, Proton VPN General Manager.
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours agoProtonVPN Mulvad VPN CalyxVPN RiseUpVPN PIA VPN Proton has 1 tracker, while the others have 0. PIA has GPS location permissions, though. Edit. All links go to the Exodus Project page for those products. The same site that the David P post uses Edit 2. Some (including Proton) have camera permission, and I don’t understand why a VPN app would need access to my camera.
minus-squareartyom@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up22arrow-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-up44·2 days 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-up25·2 days agoSurely it’s too hard to upload a spreadsheet on the internet.
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down2·1 day agoSome people just have to complain about everything. Maybe a specific excel format?
Source: David Peterson, Proton VPN General Manager.
ProtonVPN
Mulvad VPN
CalyxVPN
RiseUpVPN
PIA VPN
Proton has 1 tracker, while the others have 0.
PIA has GPS location permissions, though.
Edit. All links go to the Exodus Project page for those products. The same site that the David P post uses
Edit 2. Some (including Proton) have camera permission, and I don’t understand why a VPN app would need access to my camera.
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?