• MotoAsh@piefed.social
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    4 hours ago

    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.

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      4 hours ago

      VPN to your box somewhere else with proper filtering.

      I figured that was obvious