rofl you offer no evidence, only insults. Yore a pathetic joke and you’re trying to make it my problem. Move along, loser.
My comment wasn’t about how open or closed VPNs are, you fucking moron. It was about how they’re not a silver bullet for protecting privacy.
That’s literally not how VPNs work nor are you aware of what you’re talking about.
Using a VPN does absolutely nothing to protect from their apps scraping up and phoning home telemetry.
It’s still YOUR phone. It’s still YOUR GPS location. It’s still YOUR data connection. A VPN is not a catch-all solution to privacy.
Good luck with that on anything that has a locked boot loader or stock OS.
The idea is excellent, especially factoring in the few current suggestions to retain maximum privacy.
However, I think you’re going to hit some really big hiccups when hitting the real world. Many FOSS projects may not have completely obvious donation schemes, let alone ubiquitous and automatable schemes, for starters. Even providing clean links to patreons/coffee may end up quite an obnoxious task even using machine learning to yoink links from readmes et. al… Not to say it’s impossible, I’m saying that getting an accurate pie graph is just the beginning.
In addition, the dependencies suggestion is a pretty important and massive chestnut. It will certainly turn out that many core dependencies are used a huge portion of the time. Some disproportionately so. It will also certainly be very difficult to find and include any dependencies that are compiled in to things, and may not have obvious signatures without analyzing the source.
Of course, if things are truly FOSS, these concerns should be solvable in some way or another. Just don’t be surprised if you end up having to analyze source to get a remotely complete list!