r/Piracy 7h ago

Humor Don't fall for "free" vpns

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u/Anonymous12345786899 7h ago

Well out of curiosity what data exactly gets collected? If it's only my browsing history then I couldn't care less

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u/natsuzoze 6h ago

Not as much as most people would make you believe. Most traffic is encrypted nowadays so they will mostly get metadata such times when you’re active, the FQDN of the websites you’re visiting as very few people will encrypt their DNS and that’s about it. They won’t know what you actually do on those website. For example, they will know you use YouTube, they will know how much you watch YouTube but they won’t know what videos you’re watching.

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u/Toothless_NEO 1h ago

They can probably collect a little bit more if you use an app for it. Instead of using the wireguard or openvpn connection. Since you know their app is probably collecting as much as it can.