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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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[โ€“] viking@infosec.pub 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How exactly are you using the duckduckgo app protection and a vpn simultaneously? DDG sets itself up as a local vpn to be able to track outgoing traffic, and Android doesn't support concurrent connections. Or is that what adguard does in the background while not active?

[โ€“] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

you're correct, it's what the adguard app gets up to in the background.

the two vpns are not concurrently active.