Forbes October 22, 2024
Virtual Private Networks are marketed as a cloaking device to trick internet users into thinking they are anonymous online. However, it’s an open secret that VPNs sell user data for money.
By Steven Ehrlich, Forbes Staff
There’s an old saying among marketers, “If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product.” Over the past two decades, “free” internet services like Google and Facebook have built giant innovative businesses by essentially selling their customer data to advertisers.
Virtual private networks (VPNs) are far more insidious. These products are marketed as a simple way to browse the internet privately, free from governments and companies’ prying eyes. They are widely used by corporations to protect proprietary information. The market...
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