"The newly released documents reveal how Meta tried to gain a competitive advantage over its competitors, including Snapchat and later Amazon and YouTube, by analyzing the network traffic of how its users were interacting with Meta’s competitors."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

#news #TechNews #meta #facebook

Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch

A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.

TechCrunch
In case you were still confused why people don't want to federate with Threads.

@stefan

I heard the guy who owns Threads is a real cool dude who definitely doesn't love gathering up everyone's data

"A man-in-the-middle attack — nowadays also called adversary-in-the-middle".

I like the inclusive language here.

@stefan oh, are we supposed to look shocked?... hold on.... here we go... 🤷‍♂️

Still, good to know what dodgy shit they keep doing.

@stefan lucky us they are now part of the fediverse, probably scraping every public repository where possible