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?

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    8 months ago

    Selling? Probably not.

    But I used NetGuard to see specific requests that the AdGuard VPN app made. Then I downloaded AdGuard VPN and opened it. Without even logging in, it pinged:

    • dns.google
    • dns.alidns.com (Alibaba)
    • 2400:3200:baba::1 (Alibaba again)
    • cloudflare-dns.com

    I don’t know why it feels the need to ping so many DNS servers before you even type a username, but it does.