If You’re Using a Free VPN, You’re Being Farmed For Data

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3 min readJul 31, 2018

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by Joel Hruska

Back in February, we called out Facebook’s “free” VPN service, Onavo Protect, for literally being the opposite of a VPN. While it claims to cloak your traffic from prying eyes elsewhere, Onavo’s terms of service are straightforward about the fact that the company gathers data on everything you do and hands all of it over to Facebook. This was enough to…

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