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

    Yep, exactly my thoughts after reading how it works. Actually installed DDG as well to double check, and as expected I can’t run it simultaneously to my VPN.

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      8 months ago

      you are correct. activating one switches off the other. but the adguard vpn app still runs in the background even with its own vpn deactivated – and that’s when these requests were caughtin DDG’s net.