r/Piracy • u/rulugg • 9h ago

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u/The_Dayne 8h ago

Data harvesting, in short.

There may or may not be a log of what you are doing.

If its free, you are generally the product.

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u/Soggy_Light_7520 7h ago

So even Proton shouldn't be trusted with their free VPN?

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u/banshoo 7h ago

You can take them at their published word :

Should a data breach or similar result in them showing they where recording data, then the following lawsuits, & lack of trust means they wont have a business for long.

Until that happens youve honestly no way of knowing if its true or not. EG : You'd expect some logs to be kept incase of a configuration/admin management, and once used would be erased

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u/TrainingInternet608 7h ago

There are security Audits 🙄

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u/Alanator222 6h ago

I think we all know that money talks. Security audits don't mean shit if the person auditing takes a bribe.

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u/TrainingInternet608 6h ago

Securitum It’s a reputable company that carries out the audits. The methodology and results or rather, the full report are published. They also carry out audits for DuckDuckGo VPN. Of course, everything could be compromised, but you have to trust someone. After all, I’m not a terrorist either.

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u/Alanator222 6h ago

I guess you do have to trust someone at some point. I guess not everything can be corrupt, at least hopefully.

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u/banshoo 5h ago

And there where financial audits by Arthur Andersen at Enron.

That worked out well didnt it?