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Sticking a VPN on a smartphone then sniffing the traffic always yields a surprising number of ad requests in the background.
by philip1209 13y ago
Sticking a VPN on a smartphone then sniffing the traffic always yields a surprising number of ad requests in the background.
- ancarda 13y agoI once put a proxy in front of an HN client for iOS. Every time I tapped on something or performed an action, it would send at-least 10+ requests to various analytics firms. This included locking my phone. Additionally, almost every private key was transmitted in the clear, over HTTP. Nothing was encrypted, not even the connection to HN.