Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell.

[blackoutvpn@mastodon.social]

Every time an app serves you an ad, it broadcasts your location into an ecosystem that surveillance vendors harvest and resell. Penlink's Webloc system turns that data into three years of tracked movement for ICE, the US Army, and dozens of police departments nationwide.

https://blackoutvpn.au/blog/phone-ads-government-surveillance

#privacy #technology #democracy

[mikebabcock@floss.social]

@blackoutvpn ... this is why I use disconnect and pihole. Every time I use a VPN that VPN knows everything about me too.

#VPN #privacy #security #sysadmin

[blackoutvpn@mastodon.social]

@mikebabcock We're for people who can't or don't want to self-host a wireguard VPS. You absolutely shouldn't blindly trust a VPN company including us.

[hakuso@fe.disroot.org]

@blackoutvpn
Big Tech Terms & Conditions are a scam to bypass laws, you agree to illegal things, and pay for the priviledge of being tracked and profiled for them to sell to literally anyone with a few bucks to spare so they can deanonymize it and go full 1984.

[blackoutvpn@mastodon.social]

@Hakuso Absolutely. That's why we advocate for self hosting. We'd rather people make their own VPNs but not everyone wants to or can.