adguard vpn selling user data to third-parties? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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my apologies for the long screenshot. i had purchased adguard's vpn service for five years since its primary adguard service is well know in the iapple ecosystem.

on android, though, their app appears to send data to a lot of third-parties. has it always been this compromised? am i a fool to go for their vpn services as well?

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[-] LWD@lemm.ee 21 points 8 months ago

Selling? Probably not.

But I used NetGuard to see specific requests that the AdGuard VPN app made. Then I downloaded AdGuard VPN and opened it. Without even logging in, it pinged:

dns.google
dns.alidns.com (Alibaba)
2400:3200:baba::1 (Alibaba again)
cloudflare-dns.com

I don't know why it feels the need to ping so many DNS servers before you even type a username, but it does.

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