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That was pretty much the point of Onavo: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/21/facebook-removes-onavo/

> Onavo [...] would collect the “Time you spend using apps, mobile and Wi-Fi data you use per app, the websites you visit, and your country, device and network type.”

That's the former type of collection I was talking about. There's no evidence I can find that they installed a root CA certificate and were MITM'ing connections. That's a major accusation and one that is not accurate as far as I can tell.

Apple banned the app because it was inspecting underlying traffic not installing a fake root certificate: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/

You are quoting what Facebook claimed the app did.

The language in the lawsuit complaint is explicit that FB installed a root cert to MITM and decrypt traffic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39835115

Thanks, that's crystal clear that they were indeed doing this. Wow.

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