• noodlejetski@lemm.ee
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    7 months ago

    it was a free app, wasn’t owned by Facebook from the beginning (they’ve acquired it in 2013), and it offered data saving, so it was a tempting install for people with small data plans.

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      7 months ago

      When I was a kid, my parents taught me not to accept free candy from creepy old men.

      Kids should be taught not to install VPNs from Big Data for the same reason - and a whole host of other common sense internet hygiene rules.

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        7 months ago

        Sure, but you would have to first get people to understand what VPNs are.