[–] 1 point 1 year ago

A Tor client of some sort. Not a VPN per se, but uses the same technique times 1000 to mask your location/ip as it goes through many more routers, thus you still depend on someone else's computers: their willingness to provide you a service (which is kind of a given in a Tor network) and their availability.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It sounds like it is simply not functioning and prevents your Internet connection from working. I wouldn’t really call that “take complete control of your phone”. It’s a combination of Tor, dnscrypt and Purple I2P. So, it is supposed to control access to the internet. But if it isn’t working it isn’t working I guess. I’ve never used it so I don’t have any additional insight into why not.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The most damning thing I see there is that they use twitter and facebook, which does seem to be true.

    Haha, two of many I refuse to use. I don't blame the company, they gotta use the channels of their consumers, unfortunately for them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    No surprise that it's often blocked in China. The most damning thing I see there is that they use twitter and facebook, which does seem to be true.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What doesn't make sense?

    A VPN is, in simple terms, just a network connection that goes through someone else's modem.

    All of that is normal for a VPN:

    • You depend on their paid service
    • You depend on their network availability
    • Basic data reporting enabled by default (which you can opt out of)
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