Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs.

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• mesitoispro@ttrpg.network ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you trust Trump with your ‘private’ browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer American-based VPNs.

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• febra@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone living in Europe I’m more concerned with American companies harvesting my data.

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• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh no, China is stealing your data! Wait, America is also stealing your data and you don’t care? Hmm.

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• pinkapple@lemmy.ml ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do you trust the NSA, ICANN, IANA (all headquartered in the USA) etc and that SSL/TLS cert authorities haven’t been backdoored to hell and back? (Probably a decade+ since top level cert authorities were found to be backdoored but who cares amirite.)

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• mke@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  About as much as I trust the yanks.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So, trust your VPN service. Makes sense.

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• Zerlyna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  it can’t be worse that what DOGE has done.

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• FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s China going to do with your data? Far less than your own country can.

  If the choice is between China and your own country, China every day.

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  • stephen01king@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That is until they have enough data to be able to sabotage a major part of your country’s infrastructure and use it as a bargaining chip to exploit your country, then it won’t be less damage. Its just theoretical, but we know that’s one of the reason any country collect data from another country’s citizens.

    Just weigh the risks every time instead of defaulting to a position of China all the time.

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    • Pirate@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      China hasn’t revealed itself to be Cthulhu at every possible opportunity, unlike the US or Russia. So for me yes, it’s China at every turn unless a local option exists.

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    • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I don’t see a problem here. Capitalism has already done this. At least they have competition.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    But that’s not the choice

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    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You don’t think it is, but yeah it pretty much is. The only VPN company I know of who has proven in court that they don’t keep logs is PIA.

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• superniceperson@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sincerely, what is China going to do with it? Open a Chinese bank account in my name? If any institution in the us accepts account openings from a chinese or vpn ip address then it cant be trustworthy enough to ever affect me.

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• Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you can move onto proxies, or even host your own, but thats going to cost money.(yea thats what the of ACCOUNTS, AND LINK FARMING accts use on reddit these days). VPn is way to compromised and abused already.

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