Enlighten me. What damage do you thinking they are doing by snooping in my streaming traffic? Aside from profiling me and predicting my every move lol. But even with a VPN they are still finding ways to profile me.

As far as Lemmy instances, they are likely in a tough spot. You can’t build an enjoyable platform if it’s crawling with bots.

lemmy

Ours allow vpn's, aren't shit holes.

enlighten me

Media consumption and ad responsiveness are really good data.

Then they can connect this to your other shit (phone model browser data etc).

Violate you with medium certainty everywhere.

Edit: Wouldn't be shocked if that's why the fingerprinting on you works so well. Assuming you arent slipping too bad anywhere else.

Knowing a company is watching me because it's openly known, is to me better than paying a company to not watch me and likely risk them simply selling out eventually like they all do.

It's funnier when you stupidly expected them to protect you, PAID them for it, and they don't.

It's like 23andme. Too fucking funny and everyone deserves it for their stupidity.

VPN companies have a low interest in selling user data. Their business model is pretty profitable already, and any leak of this would instantly kill the brand.

There's no reason for proton and mullvad to sell user data. They would be legally liable and they would break their profitable companies

It’s like 23andme

fucking DNA stuff that was even written in the privacy policy iirc so meh, not the same

simply selling out eventually like they all do

would love to get examples of this. I have a lot of counter examples

I've watched this go down long enough in enough industries to know better than to believe their claim of not logging.

You're being watched. Hell, your data's probably being handed over to cops without your knowledge.

And character is like a tree and reputation is a shadow of it, and it takes a hell of a lot less to bring it down than to grow it up.

OMG! They will know all of Hue Manne's secrets!!!

I’m saying it’s literally a free VPN. But they’re q company. If they’re offering you free shit, you’re the product.

Didn’t even know they offered a free vpn. I thought it was only on paid plans. Shrugs, I already use mullvad

Ya if you are hosting it yourself then pretty different. I use them for a basic Nextcloud server myself. Their ARM servers are dirt cheap even when you have to go above their free generous cores and ram.

Honestly I thought their vpn was only on paid plans. Kinda impressed they offer it free. I assume it’s a way to get people into the ecosystem and also use their email and etc

It's similar to something we'd do on purpose in the mid 2010's, deep frying, when people made satirical MLG compilations they would throw memes in as many filters as possible, making a piss yellow slowly cover the meme the more filters you used.

I believe windscribe also has a nice free plan

He's not and you know he's not.

There's no such thing as free vpn. Any idiot who falls for this quite frankly deserves it.

You can't trust extensions these days. Granted if you are using a "free" vpn, you are the product.