I knew it was bad, just not that bad.. but oh lord these people only care about winning no matter what!! This video is a must watch if you use Facebook.
https://youtu.be/SOQynHuWPeI?si=5Rd8sfkNGSW34KBD
Tldr:
In 2013, Facebook bought a startup called Onavo for $120 million and rebranded it as a free VPN promising to protect your privacy. What 33 million users didn’t know was that it gave Facebook a complete surveillance feed of everything on their phone.
By 2016, Zuckerberg personally asked his team to crack Snapchat’s encrypted data. Within a month they had “Project Ghostbusters,” which secretly decrypted Snapchat traffic using a man-in-the-middle attack. YouTube and Amazon were targeted next. Facebook also paid teenagers as young as 13 up to $20 a month to install the app and hand over root access to their phones, with NDAs to keep them quiet.
Apple pulled Onavo from the App Store in 2018 and when Facebook tried to keep the program alive through a workaround app, Apple nuked their developer certificates, temporarily breaking every internal iOS app Facebook ran. They shut it down completely in 2019 and in 2023 Australian courts fined Meta $20 million for deceiving users about what the app actually did.