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Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne... by dreyfan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:33PM (#27330136)
You mean like HolaVPN or Geosurf the “free VPN” applications that quite literally install a backdoor proxy on your phone or PC? The parent companies then sell access to the proxies running on your devices as “residential proxies” and also sell access to your browsing history?
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Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne... by CydeWeys on Saturday May 29, 2021 @10:37PM (#27330158)
That sounds pretty close to malware to me. Are you saying they aren't?
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Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne... by dreyfan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:43PM (#27330423)
I absolutely think that qualifies as malware, yes. Apps and browser extensions harvest PII all day and the owners of those platforms (apple, google, microsoft, mozilla) do absolutely nothing to prevent it.
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Re:Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Interne... by texasbigdata on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:42AM (#27331399)
I mean, is it just the obfuscation of the privacy policy? If the user was told up front would that still make it malware?
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