Re:Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when v...
by AlexandrB on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:42PM
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> What demographics are most interested in their products? How did they get there? Does Google Analytics (or Facebook, or similar) have profiles on people shopping for VPNs? Are there advertising patterns that could have better ROI for attracting users?
Great. But being privacy-conscious organizations, the VPN providers are surely including a clear and explicit opt-in/opt-out to any kind of data collection. Right?
Checks nordvpn’s site
Whoops. Nevermind.
Re:Top VPNs recording users, potentially leaking data when v...
by blaser-waffle on Friday March 27, 2020 @11:24AM
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Something something IPMI backdoors something.
I think you make a valid point, but there's a difference between their sales pipeline and their actual product. These VPN providers are businesses, and they're trying to optimize their sales. What demographics are most interested in their products? How did they get there? Does Google Analytics (or Facebook, or similar) have profiles on people shopping for VPNs? Are there advertising patterns that could have better ROI for attracting users?
I'm not defending the ethics of major VPN providers -- they certainly don't all have stellar records -- but I would be surprised if any major SaaS company didn't track user behavior on their brochureware/sales pages.