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> Facebook Inc. pulled its data-security app

Calling this a ‘data security app’ is like calling a Snickers bar a diet meal replacement.

This app literally gives facebook the ability to track every app you runs and every website you visit, for how long, when, and what network you do it from.

It is literally the kind of data collection that people use VPNs to avoid!

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> It is literally the kind of data collection that people use VPNs to avoid!

I have a feeling that a majority of VPN app users use them with the intent of preventing a specific party from collecting that data (e.g. an employer or a government).

There's also a lot of people who use VPNs to keep their browsing private while they're on a broadly accessible wifi

I get why people would use a VPN to thwart censorship but I never really understood this line of reasoning. It seems that instead of giving a few minutes' browsing history to an unknown wireless provider, users are giving their entire history to an unknown VPN provider. Am I missing something?

You can set up your own vpn server.

Many VPN providers claim to not keep logs, and have varying levels of trustability.

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