• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The lesson to be learned here is to be careful with which VPN you trust on your phone.

    Google offers a VPN as part of their Google subscription. Makes me wonder if they’re going the same thing.

    • FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You think? How many times does Google getting sued for questionable or anti-Trust behaviour do you need?

      By now, no one should be using them if they can do so. Or at least extremely limitedly.

      Remember, they themselves are the ones who stopped using their own mantra of Don’t be evil.

    • anon987@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Hahaha, why would Google need a VPN to spy on you? Google keyboard tracks everything you do.

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                1 year ago

                Let’s be real for a moment, when has legality stopped Google?

                I’m not saying you’re wrong, but until relatively recently countries have not been holding Google or other big tech companies to task beyond a measily small percentage of their annual revenue

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                    1 year ago

                    Actually no, my statement “until recently” was referring to GDPR. I think GDPR is amazing and I’m glad we have it even if I’m an American.

                    The rest of your statement is fairly factual. The only point I could consider is someone would have to prove the keyboard is tracking us which unless someone at Google wants to whistleblower isn’t the easiest task. Whistleblowers have their own issues to content with.

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      1 year ago

      Of course they’re doing the same thing! How much of a patsy do you need to be to think otherwise?

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      1 year ago

      There is zero doubt in my mind that Google VPN is a honey pot for ad mining.

      You’d have to be a complete fucking moron to get your VPN from any surveillance capitalism corporation.