Chrome VPN Extension With 100k Installs Screenshots All Sites Users Visit
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051
Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.
SpyVPN: The Google-Featured VPN That Secretly Captures Your Screen | Koi Blog
FreeVPN.One, a Chrome-verified extension with over 100K installs, claimed to offer privacy but instead captured users’ screens. Our research exposes how it operated.
(koi-security.webflow.io)
Yup. You gotta read the fine print folks. You can all got to stack social and pick up 5 years of adguard vpn with no log policy. Its not the best out there, but its not horrible either. And at around 26 quid for 5 years, it aint bad.
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Seperate browser for Clearnet /KYC
For example "mullvad-exclude trivalent"
I actually go further and have seperate VMs with different networks (VPN1, VPN2, whonix, i2p, or clearnet
That way split tunneling feature Is not needed and I can have 2 mullvad clients on lockdownmode connected at once
What's lockdown mode. I use PIA because it was cheap about 5 years ago and never had any issues so I havent shopped around. I don't have a dedicated IP which I would have liked, they offer them but I haven't convinced myself I need it yet. I figure if anyone else (not family) needs to access a site that points to my IP I'll do it then.
Maybe I haven't been understanding/using caddy and such properly, but how do you really get multiple servers running without 80/443 not having overlap. Like right now I have 53 for my Pihole internally, 8096 Jellyfin, 3923 for a file server, can't remember what my RustDesk server is on, but I wanted to set up a Piefed instance, and obviously I'm running into issues with ports overlapping because I must not be understanding how to forward / reverse proxy them properly.
Do you set up caddy on your individual VM's and use a separate IP for each. Can I just tie a URL from NOIP to a specific port outside of 80/443 somehow?
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051
Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.
SpyVPN: The Google-Featured VPN That Secretly Captures Your Screen | Koi Blog
FreeVPN.One, a Chrome-verified extension with over 100K installs, claimed to offer privacy but instead captured users’ screens. Our research exposes how it operated.
(koi-security.webflow.io)
VPNs are wild to me. "Hey! Pay some company to promise not to watch you so you can pretend to be private and not have some company watching you."
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Unless you sign up for a VPS free trial yourself and set it up. I have two Oracle always free instances running right now
be forewarned, oracle is known to randomly just delete free VPSs out of nowhere with no warning.
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VPNs are wild to me. "Hey! Pay some company to promise not to watch you so you can pretend to be private and not have some company watching you."
better than having a company that is directly known as watching you and sending all of it to your government
some companies have built a strong reputation
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Any free VPN is a scam.
is ProtonVPN a scam then? no.
Most are, but not necessarily
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Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.
Unfortunately that means disabling my entire network VPN anytime I need to bypass a VPN block. And also makes switching between different servers significantly more complicated.
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Any free VPN is a scam.
Proton isn't.
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not on firefox they didn't
TIL Chrome makes Firefox.
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Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.
Not to be confused with "Tor Browser" (not a VPN, just providing clarification)
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better than having a company that is directly known as watching you and sending all of it to your government
some companies have built a strong reputation
What's better? The devil you know or the devil you don't?
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051
Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.
SpyVPN: The Google-Featured VPN That Secretly Captures Your Screen | Koi Blog
FreeVPN.One, a Chrome-verified extension with over 100K installs, claimed to offer privacy but instead captured users’ screens. Our research exposes how it operated.
(koi-security.webflow.io)
use either Mullvad (yes, I know, the GUI sucks) or set up your own VPN.
the mullvad cli is very quick and easy. it's a lot faster than what it was. OR set up your own wireguard VPN on your server, again very easy to set up.
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What's better? The devil you know or the devil you don't?
the devil you don’t
You're saying the reputable company is a devil we don't know? If you want to be dishonest, try a bit harder.
What you should say is "What's better? The devil you know or the unknown entity that claims to be an angel (and that hasn't been caught doing bad things since its existence, a few years)?"
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Most people don't need to run everything though a VPN. That just slows everything down. You would normally only use them to access resources on a private LAN such as when working from home or accessing your self hosted services when away from home.
That's a completely different VPN than what the rest the comments are talking about
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Unless you sign up for a VPS free trial yourself and set it up. I have two Oracle always free instances running right now
What's the point of setting up a VPN like that?
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Proton isn't.
andy yen is a pro big tech fash so yeah it is
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VPNs are wild to me. "Hey! Pay some company to promise not to watch you so you can pretend to be private and not have some company watching you."
Generally speaking, if you're paying for a VPN, then you should be paying for a provider that is no log. Free VPNs, you get what you pay for, which is nothing. So you don't really get any security with that.
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Do you not run into issues doing this? I'm constantly having to split my VPN or disable my VPN for certain logins to work, such as banks, government sites and shit.
For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn't blocked.
It's a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.
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use either Mullvad (yes, I know, the GUI sucks) or set up your own VPN.
the mullvad cli is very quick and easy. it's a lot faster than what it was. OR set up your own wireguard VPN on your server, again very easy to set up.
What about proton?
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Isnt that at the top?
Yup. Spent about 1.5 seconds on that site before closing it out.
