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Re:Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo by jarym on Friday February 22, 2019 @03:50AM (#19223971)
It’s a shame because I used Onavo before it was acquired and back in the days of limited mobile data plans it really reduced my bills. I didn’t trust FB so ditched it right after they got bought (feeling validated!).

However it got me thinking. What if FB and others went to the popular VPN services (like ExpressVPN) and said ‘here’s $xxx million - could you share aggregate data about visits to our competitors’. How many would go for it?

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Re:Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo by AznHisoka on Friday February 22, 2019 @06:14AM (#19224469)
A lot of these VPN services already sell their data to 3rd parties.
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Re:Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo by LifeLiverTransp on Friday February 22, 2019 @08:24AM (#19225031)
Including governments- who sometimes own them via secret service blackfunds.
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