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.
There are things on the internet that are free and fine to use. VPNs are not one of them. They have ongoing hosting and bandwidth costs. They are not eating those costs without recouping them somehow.
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- Minecraft, to keep my ping down
- Streaming, because Netflix and others will aggressively block VPNs
Didn't netflix encourage vpn's for like a decade?
I havent paid for streaming in forever, because i dont want to give art-mangling archive-destroyers my money, but that's amazing.
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Didn't netflix encourage vpn's for like a decade?
I havent paid for streaming in forever, because i dont want to give art-mangling archive-destroyers my money, but that's amazing.
No idea tbh. All I know is most streaming services block them now since they often have different content in different regions.
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No idea tbh. All I know is most streaming services block them now since they often have different content in different regions.
That seems so fuckkng tedious. Why are you paying them for that sevurity compromising bullshit? They're absolutely selling your juicy juicy data.
Valid on the Minecraft.
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That seems so fuckkng tedious. Why are you paying them for that sevurity compromising bullshit? They're absolutely selling your juicy juicy data.
Valid on the Minecraft.
Honestly I’m mostly leeching off my friends lol. And my cell provider bundles Netflix.
It’s not super tedious. Every time something doesn’t work, I just add it to my VPN exclusion list. I don’t really care if my ISP snoops on Netflix tbh.
The VPN blocking doesn’t really bother me. It’s the enshitification of streaming services that bothers me. E.g. why does every paid service now trying to show me ads.
Btw, a lot of Lemmy instances also don’t play nice with a VPN. Probably to block bots. PieFed is likely the same.
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How the fuck else do you think a for profit company is offering free tech?
Free trial with limitations is a classic method that has worked well
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Honestly I’m mostly leeching off my friends lol. And my cell provider bundles Netflix.
It’s not super tedious. Every time something doesn’t work, I just add it to my VPN exclusion list. I don’t really care if my ISP snoops on Netflix tbh.
The VPN blocking doesn’t really bother me. It’s the enshitification of streaming services that bothers me. E.g. why does every paid service now trying to show me ads.
Btw, a lot of Lemmy instances also don’t play nice with a VPN. Probably to block bots. PieFed is likely the same.
if my isp
Oh honey it's so much worse than that.
And fuck those lemmy instances? Might consider blocking communities hosted on them.
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if my isp
Oh honey it's so much worse than that.
And fuck those lemmy instances? Might consider blocking communities hosted on them.
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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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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.
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.
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ProtonVPN is no log and so is Mullvad I think. Basically it's mostly reputation, some also pay for outside audits of their systems so they can more effectively boast.
No log vpns probably do cooperate with authorities, but the fact that they are no log means they don't provide anything. They get a warrant for logs and identification, they comply and send a letter "we have no logs, or way to trace the identity of a user".
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.
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Whats more is that, anyone who creates a server can scrape all the data on fediverse. It's every AI company's wet dream.
And any comment you delete will still be visible to server admin.
Lemmy currently does have these privacy issues
OMG! They will know all of Hue Manne's secrets!!!
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Free trial with limitations is a classic method that has worked well
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.
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Proton isn't.
Didn’t even know they offered a free vpn. I thought it was only on paid plans. Shrugs, I already use mullvad
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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
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.
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is ProtonVPN a scam then? no.
Most are, but not necessarily
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
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The dingy color scheme gives it away immediately. AI thinks comics should look dingy. Are all LLMs trained on comics printed on old newspaper or something?
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.
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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
I believe windscribe also has a nice free plan
