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While the concept is good, I'd be extremely concerned of using any third party VPN service, free or paid. You are basically trusting your entire internet usage
by princekolt 8y ago
While the concept is good, I'd be extremely concerned of using any third party VPN service, free or paid. You are basically trusting your entire internet usage to a single entity, and I think this is way too risky.
One alternative is setting up a raspberry-pi at home running pi-hole and OpenVPN. While it is still not risk-free, it is still better than one centralized entity taking everyone's traffic. On the other hand, setting that up is still not absolutely straightforward, but it is getting better.
- MBCook 8y agoI agree. “Don’t like being tracked? Just let us watch EVERYTHING you do and we promise to stop people from tracking you.” You’re putting someone in the perfect position to track you far better than anyone else could. You better REALLY trust them.
- SEJeff 8y agoAgain, it uses a VPN to route all traffic on the phone through the app, which sends no traffic anywhere outside of your phone (confirmed via my home firewall showing no traffic going out). It uses a VPN to simply route traffic through the app to null route bad destinations. Make sense?
- gruez 8y agouse an open source one: https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 https://github.com/julian-klode/dns66 https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard
- SEJeff 8y agoIt is not actually a vpn. It is a glorified /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 null route app. It doesn't send any traffic over any real VPN, so your worry isn't a thing.
- princekolt 8y agoThis is better than what I expected. However, unless the code is public and the user can audit that the app store version is the same as the one in the public source, there's no way to be sure the entity is not capturing user data through some shady way. And let me be the first to recognize the app store model makes auditing the app extremely difficult.