Privacy should be a basic human right.
Data collection could be massively abused by oppressive governments.
Not caring about it = Not caring about your rights.
Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
Privacy should be a basic human right.
Data collection could be massively abused by oppressive governments.
Not caring about it = Not caring about your rights.
Yes that is the actual site.
LuckyPatcher has been around forever,
and has a good reputation + community.
Never seen anyone mention anything that it might contain malicious code.
The developer receives revenue through donations and showing ads on the site.
Sadly the project is not open source though.
My guess would be to prevent the hacks / patches it uses,
from being patched / made un-usable.
To be 100% sure though,
you’d have to de-compile the app,
and reverse engineer the source code,
which is a very tedious and time consuming task.
Imagine living in China,
where the government is able to request data of each company in their country.
Imagine that China would setup an AI/LLM, to feed all private chat data into it,
and automatically flagging opposition of the government regime.
Imagine a white van appearing in front of your house and disappearing into a concentration camp because you got flagged after expressing your opposition to the government to your mate in a private chat.
All collected data can be abused like that,
or by other means (E.g. a country at war gets hacked, which could lead to leaking critical private information on political/defensive decisions).
To me the question is not if data collected on you will be abused, but rather when will it be abused?
Just having it stored somewhere imposes risks.