>Only less than 1% of the negative re-
views relate to security and privacy concerns, including the
use of abusive or dubious permission requests and fraudulent
activity, for the 9 apps listed in Table 7.
Of course. People don't install these VPN apps because they want their traffic to be "secure" or "private". They install them because they want to bypass geographical restrictions for content.
Nobody cares about traffic being insecure, or ads being injected in pages--users just want to see that geolocked video and get on with it.