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Setting up a VPN that tracks all of your network activity? That makes me queasy. Why should I trust these people to keep all that valuable network traffic dat
by Zelphyr 7y ago
Setting up a VPN that tracks all of your network activity? That makes me queasy. Why should I trust these people to keep all that valuable network traffic data private for me?
Apple didn't steal this idea. They may have implemented it in a better way given their low-level system access but, in this case, and in my opinion, I'd rather this be something the OS tracks for me for free by a company that doesn't make their money off the sale of my private personal data.
- kristofferR 7y agoIt's a local VPN, all on device. Still a workaround, but data isn't being sent anywhere though.
- msh 7y agoHow can a VPN be local? If there is no vpn server at the other end is it really a VPN?
- tinus_hn 7y agoThe VPN is local if both the client and the server are local.
- Crosseye_Jack 7y agoThe phone itself is the VPN Server. Its a trick used for the app to look at some of the network traffic. Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 app does the same thing but for DNS, to capture the DNS requests from the phone you need to create a "local vpn", but not all your traffic is going though Cloudflare (yet, they do plan to add a VPN to the 1.1.1.1 app at some point). EDIT: All Custom DNS settings apps for mobile connections on iPhone (I forget if Android is the same) ate like this. I use nextdns and their app does the same.
- msh 7y agoThanks for the explanation
- heavenlyblue 7y agoIn their case it wasn't a local VPN.
- kristofferR 7y agoTrue, I somehow though we were talking about the digital wellbeing apps that Apple copied and banned.