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Cake day: March 20th, 2024

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  • Thanks for helping out! Totally should have thought of waybackmachine earlier.

    Yes, a lot of these free VPNs seems to be baked with trackers too, and often built on the same infrastructure too.

    Can’t talk for all masters across all Uni’s here, but at least in my country there is no strict requirement that it has to be something no one has ever looked at before, but it does need to be lesser known. While there is a lot of general research on VPNs - mostly the premium ones. There isn’t a lot of peer-reviewed research on the free ones, at least not enough - as I had this topic approved by my Uni. Also, the prior research clearly showed that this is a growing problem, at those studies were back from 2016 and 2021. I therefore saw reason to further investigate the state of the free VPN landscape now again in 2024.