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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 16:47:14 JST Aral Balkan
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- jesse squires 🏴
@jsq A people farmer acted unethically?

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- jesse squires 🏴 (jsq@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Mar-2024 16:47:15 JST jesse squires 🏴
  
  When I worked at Instagram/FB, I routinely saw presentations with data harvested from the Onavo “VPN”.
  I remember asking “how do we know this user data about YouTube and SnapChat?”
  The answer: “Onavo.”
  I still don’t know how this wasn’t illegal and anti-competitive. Surely it was.
  FB is a company driven by cheaters and criminals.
  https://pxlnv.com/linklog/meta-snapchat-onavo-snooping/
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    Meta Snooped on Users’ Snapchat Traffic With the Onavo VPN It Owned – Pixel Envy
    
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    Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, TechCrunch: In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its servers. The goal was to understand users’ behavior and help Facebook compete with Snapchat, according to newly unsealed court documents. Facebook called this “Project Ghostbusters,” in a clear reference to […]

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