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For a moment, I thought VPN's were the answer to this, for privacy-conscious people in India, but do such VPN's exist that are financially accessible to people from India that don't go through ISP's that do the same thing?

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> for privacy-conscious people in India

Privacy conscious in India? It wouldn't even go up to as high as 0.000001%

OperaVPN is free on iPhone - I started using it recently and it's pretty great.

They're surely mining your data. Why else would they do this ?

I have no love lost for this guy - or his company - but to be fair, why can this not be thought of as a strategy to acquire (a mother lode of) future (paying) users? Kind of bait and switch? I would say the investment of 3 or 4 months of free service is negligible as compared to the long-term revenues that this strategy would bring in.

Any benefit/s derived via possible deep data mining would only be the icing on the cake.

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