[moved to hexbear]

I think the moral of the story here is more along the lines of “don’t install weird off-brand versions of apps from dodgy places” (F-Droid excepted, obviously)

Like what the fuck is a “Black WhatsApp”?

The eSafety commission argued that “well everyone just uses VPNs anyway so it won’t matter”

Eh, have you seen some of the bots that just repost reddit content verbatim? Some trash slips through the cracks.

This is just an ad for something called PrivateLINE (no relation).

There’s no money in privacy.

Harvesting and selling personal information is practically a continual source of funds with little to no cost. Why spend time and money developing a product with all the data harvesting elements stripped out to appeals to maybe 5-10% of the market?