Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chinese ownership

Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by tehlike on Sunday November 25, 2018 @01:35AM (#18525712)

Almost all of the utility apps (battery cleaners, ram optimizers etc) are owned by chinese, and they are a bigger threat than vpn services. They have a huge footprint of devices outside of china, and have a lot of permissions granted

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by rasz on Sunday November 25, 2018 @04:40AM (#18526171)

Same on PC. Opera browser, MiniTool Partition Wizard, etc. Tons of "free" programs with build in call home "telemetry".

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by echevil on Sunday November 25, 2018 @03:21AM (#18525960)

Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised at all. VPN is useful in both direction. There are quite some Chinese content not accessible outside China.

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by kakaorka on Sunday November 25, 2018 @04:43AM (#18526178)

Can you mention an example of Chinese content that’s not accessible?

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Re:Many free mobile VPN apps are based in China or have Chin... by yorwba on Sunday November 25, 2018 @05:32AM (#18526309)

Various streaming services prevent access to their site from non-Chinese IPs because they don't have distribution rights for other countries.

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