Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.

beep@piefed.world · edit-2 7 天前

Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.

beep@piefed.world · 7 天前

Source: David Peterson, Proton VPN General Manager.

Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zip · 7 天前

Its unfortunate they really only name and shame random shovelware vpns it looks like. So it feels difficult to tell whether their points apply to any other real options people have heard of before…

u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 天前

Surely it’s too hard to upload a spreadsheet on the internet.

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 天前

Some people just have to complain about everything. Maybe a specific excel format?

artyom@piefed.social · 6 天前

Its a good thing they posted them on inaccessible Xitter in a confusing as fuck “thread” instead of their own God damn website…

𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub · 5 天前

Proton has 1 tracker, while the others have 0.
PIA has GPS location permissions, though.

Edit. All links go to the Exodus Project page for those products. The same site that the David P post uses

Edit 2. Some (including Proton) have camera permission, and I don’t understand why a VPN app would need access to my camera.

Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.

Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.

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