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Originally Posted by Donal
As a tourist, I wouldn't use free wifi in Andorra.
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Many are tracking you and sell your data in aggregate; sometimes they are even going inside your connection messing with it, (nastily) re-compressing pictures and videos, etc (yes, Vodafone, I'm looking at you).
As my permanent connection I would probably object but right now just by looking at my mobile usage there isn't much they can gather from here, yea I'm using gmail and skype and google drive and download updates for apps from play store. All those connections are encrypted so anybody in between will only know when I connect and how much traffic I do, that's all. If I start doing a lot of random browsing yes, that might be worse but not much - for any "free wifi" not only the provider but also anyone in range can sniff your traffic. If I would be concerned about this I would use something like opera mini that does tunneling to their server or some normal VPN service (you can even use your home router for this, there are many cheap routers that support VPN).