Facebook's Onavo VPN is being shut down and delisted following privacy violations

Written about 2 years ago by IanDorfman

Facebook is shuttering its infamous virtual private network service that collected data from its users in the background.

Six months after being delisted from the iOS App Store, Facebook's Onavo Protect VPN app, notorious for its harvesting of user information, has immediately stopped its background data collection functionality and discontinuing the VPN service entirely.

Onavo has now been removed from the Google Play Store following TechCrunch's report last month about how the app collected usage data from its teenage users. For any users of the Facebook-owned and operated VPN, alternatives such as OpenVPN and Mullvad are available and won't harvest your information for ill-gotten gains.