beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-23 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-square47linkfedilinkarrow-up1255arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up1231arrow-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-23 days agomessage-square47linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareVictor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·12 hours agoI didn’t say the CEO of Proton was a Nazi, lol. I think you misunderstood how they were similar to each other. Not the Nazi part, but how people don’t easily forget things that break their trust.
I didn’t say the CEO of Proton was a Nazi, lol.
I think you misunderstood how they were similar to each other. Not the Nazi part, but how people don’t easily forget things that break their trust.