Ephera@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 hours agoWhat's up with FUTO?drewdevault.comexternal-linkmessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down12
arrow-up1123arrow-down1external-linkWhat's up with FUTO?drewdevault.comEphera@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square40fedilink
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-25 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-down2·5 hours agoVPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering. I figured that was obvious
minus-squareMotoAsh@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour 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.