• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The lesson to be learned here is to be careful with which VPN you trust on your phone.

    Google offers a VPN as part of their Google subscription. Makes me wonder if they’re going the same thing.

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      9 months ago

      There is zero doubt in my mind that Google VPN is a honey pot for ad mining.

      You’d have to be a complete fucking moron to get your VPN from any surveillance capitalism corporation.

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      9 months ago

      You think? How many times does Google getting sued for questionable or anti-Trust behaviour do you need?

      By now, no one should be using them if they can do so. Or at least in an extremely limitedl fashion. For their and our sake. Since Google’s harm can reach societal levels.

      Remember, they themselves are the ones who stopped using their own mantra of Don’t be Evil.

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        9 months ago

        Honestly, I never considered the packet being decrypted by the vpn. I assumed it was encrypted til it gets to the app I’m using.