‘I just got hacked’ — What Play Store reviews reveal about people's VPN expectations
THE SO WHAT
Thirty thousand Play Store reviews show most users fundamentally misunderstand what VPNs do—treating them as magic hack shields rather than network tools. Security and consumer app teams should assume this level of confusion in their UX and copy, or risk being blamed for threats they never claimed to solve.
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