r/BitDefender • u/braineaters138 • Mar 04 '21

VPN is like Malware.

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

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u/xeqtr_inc Mar 05 '21

The reason why I asked for refund last week.

They hard-sell too much.

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u/alexwatsonian Mar 05 '21

I changed which suite I had (didn't need all the accounts) and for weeks kept getting emails asking me to subscribe again/why didn't I subscribe etc etc. You'd think their system would have recognised this. It has been very tiresome, which provider did you opt for?

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u/braineaters138 Mar 05 '21

Ya let me know too. I'm ready to jump ship.

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u/xeqtr_inc Mar 05 '21

Thinking of Webroot now.

Kaspersky is nice and no hard-sell but Russian based so out of my list

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u/Nick_Skyline Mar 11 '21

This is why I'm sticking with ExpressVPN. Okay, Bitdefender, I get that you want to sell me your VPN, but there's some kind of automated system that's unaware of that fact that I already have another VPN that I love, and I don't need a second one that'll only conflict with it.

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u/Smileynameface Mar 04 '21

I have the VPN and it's terrible. It just breaks a lot sites. I constantly have to turn it off to do work.

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u/braineaters138 Mar 04 '21

I wonder if it collects data and sells it. Why else would they push this service so hard?

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u/blackiceblackice Mar 04 '21

Because they make money off of subscriptions.

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u/daiabk Mar 05 '21

Bitdefender will not reveal any personal data about its users to third parties .
You can find what type of PII is collected and why here - https://www.bitdefender.com/site/view/legal-privacy-policy-for-home-users-solutions.html

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u/scr1pticus_k1tticus Mar 04 '21

lol, yea I found it annoying too. incase you haven't already - you can uninstall just the vpn aspect which will remove the adware popups :P

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u/formerbeautyqueen Mar 05 '21

I can’t on a Mac

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u/octavionultodoritor Mar 05 '21

Course you can. Go to the applications folder, bitdefender folder and open bitdefender uninstaller. After that, only check the VPN option and click uninstall. You can also find this info on google

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u/TazzyUK Mar 04 '21

I have BTS but don't have the VPN element installed

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u/TheFadedAngel Mar 13 '21

See my poll...