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Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by chimen »

knodi123 wrote: post #114
hoofhearted wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NordVPN does this as well. Google and Amazon own large blocks of IP ranges for their cloud services, so it’s fairly easy to detect bots built on AWS and Google cloud. On the other hand, Verizon also owns a large block of IP addresses that they give out to their residential customers. NordVPN takes advantage of the fact that people like Netflix and Amazon don’t want to block out Verizon’s ip ranges, and disguise netwo…

> NordVPN does this as well. Do they? Last time I looked into this drama, it seems like the botnet accusations were just scurrilous slander. https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/nord-vpn-botnet...

Almost certain. NordVPN owns Oxylabs if I'm not mistaken

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by chimen »

ecf wrote: post #105

Developers who sell out their app to entities like this deserve to be ostracized from the profession.

yes, you're paying his rent probably right? What did he do? Did he sell his app? I would sell any app I own for the right price btw.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by balaji1 »

cipheredStones wrote: post #169
balaji1 wrote: post #151

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was there a similar (policy or functionality) change to "the great suspender" chrome extension recently? Browsers seem to have marked it as unsafe.

It's been malicious for two and a half years now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25846504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622015

damn.. what's the TLDR? What is the speculated worst?

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by stOneskull »

extesy wrote: post #189
mschuster91 wrote: post #8

I hate silent takeovers so much. Chrome developer extensions are another very popular thing for bad actors to buy out and replace with malware, and it sucks.

As a maintainer of a semi-popular chrome extension[1], I receive so many buy-out offers that I started publicly collecting them[2] for everyone to see. [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hover-zoom%20/pccc... [2] https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

you're one of the goodies. thank you.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by YeBanKo »

Apple is locking down macOS more and more, and yet there is no built in feature like Little Snitch or LuLu neither in MacOS or iOS. So basically they don’t mind apps spying on you, as long as it is approved by Apple.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by ecf »

circuit10 wrote: post #193
ecf wrote: post #105

Developers who sell out their app to entities like this deserve to be ostracized from the profession.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame the developer unless you can prove that they knew this was going to happen

I’m sure an LLC named TPE.FYI is going to have good intentions with a closed sourced, free menu bar app that’s a gloried AppleScript any junior developer can build in a day.

Developer knew exactly what was going to happen.

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by ecf »

chimen wrote: post #192
ecf wrote: post #105

Developers who sell out their app to entities like this deserve to be ostracized from the profession.

yes, you're paying his rent probably right? What did he do? Did he sell his app? I would sell any app I own for the right price btw.

And people wonder why software developers are starting to get bad reputations…

Re: Uninstall the NightOwl app

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Post by noduerme »

hoofhearted wrote: post #163
Philip-J-Fry wrote: post #113

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I can't see anything suggesting they proxy VPN traffic through their users. Would certainly be a scandal worth talking about if true.

I believe users can opt in to let proxy traffic through.

I use NordVPN (and their client software), and I don't see any such option. I'd be pretty furious if that were happening. I have not seen evidence of it... apart from some small requests to a few of their own weirdly-named domains (which I assume are to sync their proxy list), it doesn't look like there's any traffic going from my box to anything other than whichever of their servers I'm tunneling to.
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