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Warning: Those free VPN apps are selling your browsing data
I got sick of seeing ads for the exact thing I searched for like 5 minutes before. So I downloaded one of those free VPN apps everyone raves about on TikTok. Figured it would hide my traffic from my ISP and stop the targeted ads. Big mistake. After about 2 weeks I noticed my connection was way slower and weird popups started showing up. Did some digging and found out that app was injecting ads into my browser AND logging every site I visited to sell to data brokers. Uninstalled it immediately and switched to a paid VPN that actually has a no-log policy. Has anyone else gotten burned by a free VPN app in the last few months?
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elizabethg189d ago
Free VPNs gotta make money somehow and that's usually through your data.
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paulw879d ago
Actually @elizabethg18 you're mostly right but free VPNs aren't always selling data. Some use freemium models where they give you a little free data and upsell you to paid plans. TunnelBear and ProtonVPN do that. Others show aggressive ads or bundle adware. But yeah the shady ones definitely sell browsing history and connection logs to third parties. Can't trust most free ones at all.
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