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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?
~~From what I see, your screenshot tells what adguardVPN blocked. Each app shown in adguardVPN seems to send a lot of things.~~
~~Maybe time to switch to alternatives if you are concerned about telemetry and personal data?~~
My bad, see answer below !
No that's the duckduckgo app which is blocking outgoing connection attempts from adguard.
What I don't know is whether those are actual connection requests of adguard, or whether they came from any other apps and were routed through the VPN and that's why they ended up on this list.
I'm not quite sure how the duckduckgo app actually works to track/block those requests.
Edit: https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/p-app-tracking-protection/what-is-app-tracking-protection/
DuckDuckGo uses the VPN slot to work, so if they're using it to block trackers, they can't be simultaneously using an actual VPN.
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.
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.
Ohh yeah my bad! Haven't seen the DDG notice. It's not obvious and OP doesn't give much info.
~~But I REALLY doubt this is AdgaurdVPN sending all those request, this would be a real concern for a lot of people and other VPNs would already have jumped on the "Adguard" is bad train.~~
AdguardVPN seems effectively to send a lot of sketchy dns request...
it's DDG that's active, and which has filtered out these tracking requests sent by the adguard vpn android app (with its own vpn inactive) in the background.