Study of 281 Free Android VPN Apps Finds Traffic Leaks, Unencrypted Data, and Tracking
Researchers ran 281 of the most popular free VPN apps on the Google Play Store through a new testing system and found that many fail at the basics people install a VPN for, i.e., keeping their traffic private and secure.
The apps flagged with at least one problem have been installed more than 2.4 billion times.
The problems are basic, not sophisticated. 29 apps let user traffic leak outside
