• jimmy90@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    they appear to have stopped that 4 years ago and apologized for the mistake

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      7 months ago

      Right, but I don’t trust them as a result and I don’t feel comfortable recommending them or not pointing it out. Meddling with links you click is malware behavior.

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        7 months ago

        the VPN was a feature of the software at the time and not enabled unless you signed up but as you point out if software changes its service without explicitly telling users these days it feels bad

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            7 months ago

            according to the minutes of research i did ;-) i got the impression the service was disabled by default. i don’t know the tech details otherwise so i don’t know if it made the system vulnerable or unstable in any way. i didn’t find anything like that.

            more to the point is that they should have said that VPN resources were being installed