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Not yet. But, they might copy others like Norton 360 or Bitdefender mobile soon. They will use scare tactics saying you're not secure because you don't use their "wonderful" VPN/DNS. They're marketing using their services as essential to protection without an option to disable the message or say that you already use another security solution. Just like the built-in "cleaners" these solutions are not always safer and in most cases even worse. In Bitdefender case they are branding it "Web Protection". It's extremely annoying. If a company marks my system as not secure because I decide to disable HTTPS scanning or don't want my DNS to be logged by some company with no clear privacy policy on VPN/DNS log retention, I can't take you seriously as a security company. That's just data collection and they are using fear mongering as a revenue stream.
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<blockquote data-quote="SpiderWeb" data-source="post: 1094167" data-attributes="member: 88686">Not yet. But, they might copy others like Norton 360 or Bitdefender mobile soon. They will use scare tactics saying you&#039;re not secure because you don&#039;t use their &quot;wonderful&quot; VPN/DNS. They&#039;re marketing using their services as essential to protection without an option to disable the message or say that you already use another security solution. Just like the built-in &quot;cleaners&quot; these solutions are not always safer and in most cases even worse. In Bitdefender case they are branding it &quot;Web Protection&quot;. It&#039;s extremely annoying. If a company&nbsp; marks my system as not secure because I decide to disable HTTPS scanning or don&#039;t want my DNS to be logged by some company with no clear privacy policy on VPN/DNS log retention, I can&#039;t take you seriously as a security company. That&#039;s just data collection and they are using fear mongering as a revenue stream.[ATTACH=full]284445[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiderWeb, post: 1094167, member: 88686"] Not yet. But, they might copy others like Norton 360 or Bitdefender mobile soon. They will use scare tactics saying you're not secure because you don't use their "wonderful" VPN/DNS. They're marketing using their services as essential to protection without an option to disable the message or say that you already use another security solution. Just like the built-in "cleaners" these solutions are not always safer and in most cases even worse. In Bitdefender case they are branding it "Web Protection". It's extremely annoying. If a company marks my system as not secure because I decide to disable HTTPS scanning or don't want my DNS to be logged by some company with no clear privacy policy on VPN/DNS log retention, I can't take you seriously as a security company. That's just data collection and they are using fear mongering as a revenue stream. [ATTACH type="full" width="337px"]284445[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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