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?

  • ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.worldOP
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    the vpn wasn’t connected at the time these requests were sent. that’s how DDG captures these requests, by using the vpn slot itself. these requasts were sent by the adguard app in the background when it was deactivated.

    the data sent to third-party ttrackers had nothing to do with the vpn functionality or of other apps funneling their data through it.

    this observation has also been corroborated by another user using other means elsewhere in the comments. do give it a dekko, too.