In recent development where people flocked to vpn to evade age verification, this should be a concern. No one should screenshotting user screen for whatever reason, not Microsoft not some random guy operating a vpn service.
I know I am a tech savvy person and know enough about tech, privacy, security, etc. so I should not judge people who fall victim to such things. But this is one them nonetheless.
Basic critical thinking skills and research along would have gone a long way to help them choose a far superior product (even if it is NordVPN or Surfshark if they don’t get deep enough with their research to learn about IVPN and Mullvad). Never trust free digital products unless made as or in the spirit of FOSS that has basic privacy respecting policies.
Perhaps its only me with such thinking but I can only feel so sorry for this blatantly ignorant mistake that was so easily avoidable.
Why would you trust something called “Spy”VPN or “Cop”VPN. I mean “something” about them doesn’t feel right.
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It wasn’t actually called “SpyVPN,” that’s just how the article title is referring to it. The actual VPN being discussed is FreeVPN.One.
Even today there is still a lot of trust in institutions such as Google. If Google features a product, people are likely to assume its safe.
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My bad.
Then it is more their fault isn’t there
There was a forum post just the other day of someone using one of these.
They wouldn’t exist if people didn’t trust/use them.