A Tor client of some sort. Not a VPN per se, but uses the same technique times 1000 to mask your location/ip as it goes through many more routers, thus you still depend on someone else's computers: their willingness to provide you a service (which is kind of a given in a Tor network) and their availability.
Here it says that the app tracks and reports your activity. We usually use a VPN for privacy and anonymity. If the VPN tracks my activities and reports it, what's the point in using it at all ??
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sgh@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 1y
What doesn't make sense?
A VPN is, in simple terms, just a network connection that goes through someone else's modem.
All of that is normal for a VPN:
leviathan@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
Non-Free means the server code is proprietary, it's not about price
sgh@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
I meant it as a "you depend on their service" but that alone just felt redundant/confusing with "you depend on their network availability".
By paid, I mean "contractually obligated" service, I hope it can make sense of what I am trying to express.
It could've been free, but it'd depend on them wanting to give you their services.
debianastro@crazypeople.online · 0 pts · 1y
How would you define inviziblepro in that case ?
sgh@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
A Tor client of some sort. Not a VPN per se, but uses the same technique times 1000 to mask your location/ip as it goes through many more routers, thus you still depend on someone else's computers: their willingness to provide you a service (which is kind of a given in a Tor network) and their availability.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 10 pts · 1y
Is what true?
Everything here are disclaimers by the app dev.
debianastro@crazypeople.online · 1 pts · 1y
Here it says that the app tracks and reports your activity. We usually use a VPN for privacy and anonymity. If the VPN tracks my activities and reports it, what's the point in using it at all ??
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
debianastro@crazypeople.online · -3 pts · 1y
Why did you highlight this out ?
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Red_October@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Because it's not the "invasion of privacy" kind of tracking, and you can opt out of it anyway.
debianastro@crazypeople.online · -2 pts · 1y
How can I opt out of it ?
ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Settings -> Help us fight censorship
Red_October@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
It will be in the options somewhere. It says you can opt out, you can figure it out.
kbal@fedia.io · 5 pts · 1y
No surprise that it's often blocked in China. The most damning thing I see there is that they use twitter and facebook, which does seem to be true.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 3 pts · 1y
Haha, two of many I refuse to use. I don't blame the company, they gotta use the channels of their consumers, unfortunately for them.