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Haha, I quietly called them out few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823292 Their CEO is one sha
by etaioinshrdlu 7y ago
Haha, I quietly called them out few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17823292
Their CEO is one shady dude. Evasive. Knew his company was sitting on a shady foundation and just kept it going.
Large companies buy Sensor Tower's data.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoCome to think of it, isn't the name pretty revealing? You don't build a sensor tower to block and hide information, you build one to collect data.
- stronglikedan 7y agoMay as well have called it Eye of Sauron.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoAhh but the users of the VPNs apps have no idea that Sensor Tower is behind the app and collecting and selling their data. It might be in the terms of service and briefly shown to them, but in the literal, practical sense, the users actually do not know! It is without their knowledge.
- AznHisoka 7y agoSimilarWeb is another company with millions of funding that is sitting on a shady foundation as well.
- vgaldikas 7y agoCan you elaborate?
- AznHisoka 7y agoThey own a bunch of chrome extensions that track all the websites you visit and queries you enter into google
- rhizome 7y agoI'm waiting for news about OneTrust, the company handling GDPR/CCPA cookie management for a ziiilllion sites. I can't imagine they aren't getting in on this action.