beep@piefed.worldM to Technology@piefed.worldEnglish · 29 days agoProton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.protonvpn.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up148arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
arrow-up146arrow-down1external-linkProton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.protonvpn.combeep@piefed.worldM to Technology@piefed.worldEnglish · 29 days agomessage-square8linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
minus-squareCerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·29 days agoSo, in short, VPNs that sound shady probably are.
So, in short, VPNs that sound shady
probablyare.