By Martin Brinkmann on July 4, 2015 in Internet – Last Update: July 4, 2015
“Free is not always free on the Internet, and there is usually a cost involved (albeit not necessarily monetary) when you sign up for free services.
In the case of Zapyo, it is your data — anonymized — that gets collected and processed. It is not the only service that handles things this way. In fact, most “bypass services” do the very same thing or worse, as the recent Hola incident has shown.
Read the full article at: ghacks.net
One commenter takes the opportunity to tell us of the TOSDR service: Terms of Service, didn’t read!
“TOSDR is a web-service which grades other services on how much they screw you over. The database is created by real people and you can help by submitting info to an actual person who can update the database with that info. You can access the service by their browser add-on, and it works in the good way for the grades (local db copy) not the bad way (online lookups that reveal the domain you’re on). It’s pretty good but it hasn’t really taken off. They really need to form an alliance with other privacy groups imo.”