Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.
Do you not run into issues doing this? I'm constantly having to split my VPN or disable my VPN for certain logins to work, such as banks, government sites and shit.
Most people don't need to run everything though a VPN. That just slows everything down. You would normally only use them to access resources on a private LAN such as when working from home or accessing your self hosted services when away from home.
That's a completely different VPN than what the rest the comments are talking about
Any free VPN is a scam.
Proton isn't.
andy yen is a pro big tech fash so yeah it is
He's not and you know he's not.
is ProtonVPN a scam then? no.
Most are, but not necessarily
Hey, you know when people in the UK were saying that the online safety act would drive teenagers to use dodgy vpns? This is what we meant.
People won't plug their phone into a USB socket in an airport lounge, but they will install software that sends 100% of their web traffic to a third party and has unfettered device permissions.
But you have to understand that it's still preferable to a wanking license.
There's no such thing as free vpn. Any idiot who falls for this quite frankly deserves it.
Sure THIS will protect the children!
/s
Stopped reading as soon as I saw an AI image for the article.
What about Firefox? Looks like it exists for more than just chrome. I know because I literally used it this week for the first time ever due to being on vacation in a state that wants my photo to view porn... I couldn't believe this shit actually exists now.
So Microsoft Recall but by a third party?
it’s FreeVPN.One
good thing they got rid of adblockers to make users safer tho
not on firefox they didn't
TIL Chrome makes Firefox.
you mean google? no, its mozilla for now.
How the fuck else do you think a for profit company is offering free tech?
There are things on the internet that are free and fine to use. VPNs are not one of them. They have ongoing hosting and bandwidth costs. They are not eating those costs without recouping them somehow.
You can't trust extensions these days. Granted if you are using a "free" vpn, you are the product.
God that ai image the article uses is such shit
The dingy color scheme gives it away immediately. AI thinks comics should look dingy. Are all LLMs trained on comics printed on old newspaper or something?
YIKES.
Not unexpected
First mistake: using Chrome.
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
