cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35967051
Most people turn to a VPN for one reason: privacy. And with its verified badge, featured placement, and 100k+ installs, FreeVPN.One looked like a safe choice. But once it’s in your browser, it’s not working to keep you safe, it’s continuously watching you.
Oh honey it’s so much worse than that.
And fuck those lemmy instances? Might consider blocking communities hosted on them.
Enlighten me. What damage do you thinking they are doing by snooping in my streaming traffic? Aside from profiling me and predicting my every move lol. But even with a VPN they are still finding ways to profile me.
As far as Lemmy instances, they are likely in a tough spot. You can’t build an enjoyable platform if it’s crawling with bots.
Ours allow vpn’s, aren’t shit holes.
Media consumption and ad responsiveness are really good data.
Then they can connect this to your other shit (phone model browser data etc).
Violate you with medium certainty everywhere.
Edit: Wouldn’t be shocked if that’s why the fingerprinting on you works so well. Assuming you arent slipping too bad anywhere else.