Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its users.
Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its users.

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

This is the problem with using VPN services in general, you have to have complete trust in the service provider.
@yogthos Is anyone surprised by this anymore? Facebook is evil- full stop. We don't need any more reasons to obstain from using their products but "mArKeTplAcE" and "mY cOuSiNs WoNt SwiTcH."
Maybe the idea is to show the folks who keep complaining about defederating from Threads that they either don't know or have forgotten just exactly what kind of company Meta is.
I'm trying really hard to get my family to use something else for communication but they won't. It's a fucking drag.
Marketplace is pretty useful. I hope a solid open-source alternative comes along.
Network effects do make it really hard for any new platform to displace the incumbents.