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Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users: Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
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this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2026
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You don't need an email with lemmy.org? what is wrong with the .world accounts?
How does one go about finding and installing a vpn on a computer and phone connection? Because half the vpn's are themselves spying on users and selling the data to brokers I've heard, which rather defeats the purpose, especially as the government buys all data broker information.
I look up VPNs on the privacy reddit or lemmy. Some vpns are good, usually the paid ones. The free ones are certainly selling your shit.
It's just software you install and click the on toggle with.
$10 a month subscription last time I used one.
Do you have a source for that? Genuinely asking, I use a VPN and would like to read more into it
Oh nothing specific on that, that is what I've read in passing from everywhere though, you are supposed to do all this forensic work on every app because no one has done it for us apparently, and the app stores and Operating system owners decided to sell us all out for an extra buck so they won't tell us. My phone won't even tell me if an app costs money, they will tell me if they charge money through them, then I can download it and they will want a monthly payment outside of the app store.
They all have top ratings that are openly gamed, comments are fake, last I checked they even disallowed seeing worst comments first making the fake paid for ai comments, actually indians, the only reviews you can see. But I digress.
Nothing in particular but that is what everyone has said about vpn's and every other app, you are supposed to research their data sharing and all that because no one does it for us somehow.
If you want to know that the government buys data broker information, I have that one here, https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/