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VPN companies make a lot of money selling your browsing activity to governments, fintech, and adtech.
by dreyfan 5y ago
VPN companies make a lot of money selling your browsing activity to governments, fintech, and adtech.
- threecheese 5y agoDo you have evidence of this?
- sdrawkcabmai 5y agoThey do not keep logs on your browsing history but they do route it immediately to various parties paying for the live feeds. /sarcasm sort of I think those vpns are monetizing your traffic everyway they can and are often circumspect about it.
- monkeybutton 5y agoThe best way to find out would be to try and buy such data.
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y agoWhat would that look like? Do you have evidence some don’t?
- etaioinshrdlu 5y agoHere is some: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-ad-blocking-apps-sensor-tower https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/vpn-and-...
- myrandomcomment 5y agoThese are "free" VPN apps. You get what you pay for.
- greyface- 5y agohttps://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300234
- fuj 5y agoFree or close to free VPNs? Maybe. Paid VPNs like Nord, Proton, Express. Seriously doubt it. Their estimated subscribed count * subscription cost is worth a lot more than selling data, specially considering it would kill their business the minute it came out.