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holavpn was exposed by trend micro as a botnet for rent (best source I could find since the original white paper from trend micro seems to be gone: https://www.
by dantyti 3y ago
holavpn was exposed by trend micro as a botnet for rent (best source I could find since the original white paper from trend micro seems to be gone: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pga9yk/your-tool-to-access-netflix-content-abroad-is-hijacking-your-internet-connection https://www.vice.com/en/article/pga9yk/your-tool-to-access-n... )
facebook used their vpn onavo to mitm users of snapchat, amazon, youtube: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/ https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-sn... – somehow I had missed this, I was only aware of the much older scoop about facebook using it to track underaged users: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/ https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/
- gruez 3y ago>facebook used their vpn onavo [...] It's worth pointing out that while it operated as a VPN (so it could capture traffic), it was ostensibly marketed as a "security" app (ie. scanning your web traffic for threats). It's not really a good example of shady VPNs.