beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agoProton 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.protonvpn.comexternal-linkmessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up160arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up153arrow-down1external-linkProton 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.protonvpn.combeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareDigDoug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 months agoI’m overblowing the Trump thing because I don’t appreciate being advertised to.
I’m overblowing the Trump thing because I don’t appreciate being advertised to.