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Can you make your case why that would be a problem?

Yeah, that’s why I think it’s debatable. It’s a lot easier to make those decisions on traffic coming from a known vpn ip, versus all vps providers in the world - many of which have corporate uses.

On the other hand - if you’re smart enough to set up a vpn, you’ll also be smart enough to set up ad blocking, so the point is kinda moot anyway. Plus you’ll be a lot less likely to have your traffic logged opposed to a service vpn.

That’s debatable. In my estimation, by using a “service vpn” you’re giving advertisers some other kind of demographic information, namely that you’re the kind of person that pays for a vpn.

Yups. You’re usually better off running one yourself.

My guess is they put it in the terms and conditions of the vpn.

What the title and bot don’t mention: They did so by installing spyware on phones of users of a vpn they acquired:

After Zuckerberg’s email, the Onavo team took on the project and a month later proposed a solution: so-called kits that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific subdomains, “allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage,” read an email from July 2016. “This is a ‘man-in-the-middle’ approach.”

What’s more:

Later, according to the court documents, Facebook expanded the program to Amazon and YouTube.

Obligatory this is why you shouldn’t use a free/cheap vpn.

Thanks, couldn’t have done it without you ;)

Glad to have amused you then. Hope you won’t take it too seriously, I certainly won’t.

Me: ip law is complicated.

You: you’re wrong, it’s used for (even more things).

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They’re not wrong. On multiple occasions the devs have acted like assholes, this one as well. Especially the part where they initially didn’t think GDPR would apply because they aren’t a commercial entity (paraphrasing) is comically depressing.

Having said that, I won’t be cancelling my donations anytime soon. Assholes though they might be, I still want to pay back to the Lemmy community, and I can’t think of a better way than this.

Wouldn’t the attacker have to be on the same network as the resolver for this to work? Or could it be triggered by a “dirty hostname”? Because in the former case, most home networks would not be at much risk.

Everyone who disagrees must be a paid shill huh?

Have you ever heard of Hanlon’s Razor?

I do think every instance should preemptively defederate threads (I did on mine). But assuming that everyone who disagrees must be a shill, rather than just naive or uninformed… That’s some serious next level conspiracy theory.

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Ohhhhhh, is that why.

You say that, but yet bringing a camera is guaranteed to get you kicked out of a cinema.

German traffic laws are not my area of expertise, but can you also lose your license if you drank alcohol a week ago?

It’s not entirely a 1-to-1 comparison, but weed doesn’t have That long an impact on reaction times.

Ditto, but with Resilio Sync.