Re:NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
by entropyneur on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:33PM
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I owned a small VPN provider. We never did or considered doing that. So your statement is definitely false. But I also doubt that it's even approximately correct. Even assuming the worst of most VPN providers, I'd be very, very surprised if that could be a viable business model. Your DNS data isn't even remotely valuable enough to justify user acquisition and bandwidth/servers cost.
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Re:NordVPN library and client code open-sourced
by VonGuard on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:37PM
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OpenDNS built a business around this model: use our DNS servers and we sell the DNS hits to third parties looking to track traffic. I worked at a company that bought this data and resold it. Maybe the little VPN providers don't do this, but the big ones certainly do.