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I was joking to my friends that FB was offering a VPN only to spy on connections to other companies so that they can acquire them after a certain level. But its
by vijaybritto 6y ago
I was joking to my friends that FB was offering a VPN only to spy on connections to other companies so that they can acquire them after a certain level. But its shocking to see that this actually happened
- neilalexander 6y agoIt's just another day in Facebook.
- Lammy 6y agoThey knew exactly what they were doing. Notice how Onavo Protect's (the VPN product's name at the time) Google Play store listing didn't mention "Facebook" at all, and you wouldn't have known there was any association unless you searched for the 2013 announcement of FB's Onavo acquisition: https://i.imgur.com/iUrvBqx.jpg https://i.imgur.com/iUrvBqx.jpg It was eventually changed to "Onavo Protect, from Facebook" a few years later: https://i.imgur.com/wSZwc8i.jpg https://i.imgur.com/wSZwc8i.jpg Then they even later tried paying teenagers to be spied on and had Apple shut down their enterprise app-provisioning certificate which was pretty amusing.