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minus-squarenoodlejetski@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoit 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.
minus-squareExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-23 months agoWhen 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.
minus-squarelud@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoSure, but you would have to first get people to understand what VPNs are.
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.
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.
Sure, but you would have to first get people to understand what VPNs are.