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Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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Re: Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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The cavalier attitude says to me that this company is still a start up at heart. Early-stage companies often break a lot of rules that’s how you get big. Facebook is just still doing it.

This "it's ok to act immorally and illegally when you're a startup" attitude has to die in a fire.

It's not immoral or illegal. It's just "will convict in the court of public opinion". And as a startup you should ignore that.

Re: Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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I'm disappointed that Google was fine with Onavo being in the Play Store and it took Facebook (!) itself to actually remove the app.

One should be morally good to enforce morality on others! They all exploit users' privacy with the one powerful weapon called "Settings".

Re: Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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The cavalier attitude says to me that this company is still a start up at heart. Early-stage companies often break a lot of rules that’s how you get big. Facebook is just still doing it.

This "it's ok to act immorally and illegally when you're a startup" attitude has to die in a fire.

Governments need to stop trying to regulate everything so hard it stifles business then. Without Uber taxis would be even worse than they are today.

Re: Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This "it's ok to act immorally and illegally when you're a startup" attitude has to die in a fire.

Governments need to stop trying to regulate everything so hard it stifles business then. Without Uber taxis would be even worse than they are today.

In the USA perhaps. Some of the other countries they operate in had and have taxis, and food delivery, that work just fine. All Uber has done is introduce unreliable, heavily subsidised - and therefore unfair - competition.

It's the Walmart model: Make a loss until the others go under thanks to deepest pockets. When none remain, raise prices markedly.

Re: Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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This "it's ok to act immorally and illegally when you're a startup" attitude has to die in a fire.

Problem is governments never really acted aside from the US congressional hearings. While this is happening, Facebook's profits are up. There's really nothing compelling Zuck and Facebook to act morally and legally.

The EU had a hearing as well. The UK had one after that and Zucc didn't show. I guess the other EU members are satisfied to know that FB doesn't give enough of a shit to actually show up when asked to show up.

Re: Facebook Will Shut Down Its Spyware VPN App Onavo

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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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