It looks like Facebook bought an app just to spy on us. Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120 million and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on more than 33 million users’ entire phones for years.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 1, 2025
This app helped Zuckerberg buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19 billion and break Snapchat’s encryption.
According to Alex Vacca, FB bought an Israeli VPN app called Onavo. It promised to “secure your data” and reduce mobile data usage.
When Facebook bought it in 2013, Zuckerberg said the app would help them connect more people to the internet. Facebook even promised to keep Onavo running as a standalone brand.
But Onavo operated as a VPN that routed all your phone’s internet traffic through Facebook’s servers before sending it anywhere else.
Facebook could see:
• Every app you opened
• How long you used it
• Which websites you visited
• And at what time you used each app
What did this mean for Facebook?
It meant that Zuck could see exactly which one of Facebook’s competitor was growing popular among people.
Look how Facebook was tracking these apps (revealed in the court later): pic.twitter.com/L780CFL0KJ
— Alex Vacca (@itsalexvacca) July 31, 2025
If you want to see Mr. Vacca’s proof, just go to the first post and read through the evidence in a series of posts, which I call Xeets. I am tired of saying, formerly known as twitter.
Follow his xeets to the end.
This surveillance is illegal and Facebook should be facing a Huge class action suit that breaks the company and forces little Mark Zuckerberg to go out and get a real job.
And everyone wants to know why I have never joined Farcebook.
” …..which I call Xeets. I am tired of saying, formerly known as twitter…..” You are right to call those Xeets I think that Musk chose a very bad name when he renamed Twitter X The word Twitter could be used in every way ” I tweeted it this morning” ” I saw that in a tweet yesterday ” ”… Read more »
Anyone who still uses Facebook is a moron.