Ephera@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 18 hours agoWhat's up with FUTO?drewdevault.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1170arrow-down12
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minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-212 hours agoUsing a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry. It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.
minus-squarekrolden@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·12 hours agoVPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering. I figured that was obvious
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·8 hours agoThat’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.
Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.
It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.
VPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering.
I figured that was obvious
That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.
What