Yeah, thatâs why I think itâs debatable. Itâs a lot easier to make those decisions on traffic coming from a known vpn ip, versus all vps providers in the world - many of which have corporate uses.
On the other hand - if youâre smart enough to set up a vpn, youâll also be smart enough to set up ad blocking, so the point is kinda moot anyway. Plus youâll be a lot less likely to have your traffic logged opposed to a service vpn.
What the title and bot donât mention: They did so by installing spyware on phones of users of a vpn they acquired:
After Zuckerbergâs email, the Onavo team took on the project and a month later proposed a solution: so-called kits that can be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific subdomains, âallowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage,â read an email from July 2016. âThis is a âman-in-the-middleâ approach.â
Whatâs more:
Later, according to the court documents, Facebook expanded the program to Amazon and YouTube.
Obligatory this is why you shouldnât use a free/cheap vpn.
Theyâre not wrong. On multiple occasions the devs have acted like assholes, this one as well. Especially the part where they initially didnât think GDPR would apply because they arenât a commercial entity (paraphrasing) is comically depressing.
Having said that, I wonât be cancelling my donations anytime soon. Assholes though they might be, I still want to pay back to the Lemmy community, and I canât think of a better way than this.
So⌠Instances like lemmy.world, that this is posted to?
yes, Iâm federated with them as well, but shit like this is why I dislike them being so big. In the end all the smaller instances can either have strong morals and integrity, or have access to the largest amount of content in the fediverse, but not both.