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Highly creepy. Got an email from #Surfshark saying "Just a heads up — you haven't been checking our emails lately, so in 5 days we'll be unsubscribing you from our email communication."

I read this as bragging that Surfshark uses web bugs to determine when people read their email. I open mail as text-only, avoiding detection. They don't like people who do that.

This is especially disturbing from a #VPN company that sells privacy as its main product.
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PublicLewdness 2y ago

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I would never trust a closed source VPN so their creepy behavior isn't that shocking. Still scummy though. I'd recommend Proton VPN or Mullvad.

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gmcgath 2y ago

nostr:npub1anv7gavpwt28mt59jrrpewqjsfc7xxlyccpu8zg52607z8sjwulsjyajmr With a VPN, the source code doesn't tell you much. By its nature, you hand a VPN all your traffic. The question is whether you can trust it with it.

When it comes to trust, Surfshark just took careful aim at its own foot and pulled the trigger.