WhatsApp officially names Mullvad and Amnezia VPN as go-to tools for bypassing censorship

Wolf tells sheep about the best fences to keep predators out

Mullvad is widely considered the best VPN, so they're actually not wrong on this one. Don't take it from Meta, there are tons of other unbiased sources on this.

That just means they don't want you to leave their service and can get at your data anyway if you use a VPN.

They just fear or losing users to other apps in places with restricted access

never heard of Amnezia

You said that before though

Supposedly Amnezia is an anti censorship tool, however Facebook has a terrible track record with recommending VPNs. The previous one turned out to be spyware

Onavo, Inc. was an Israeli mobile web analytics company that was purchased by Facebook, Inc. (now Meta Platforms), who changed the company's name to Facebook Israel.[1] The company primarily performed its activities via consumer mobile apps, including the virtual private network (VPN) service Onavo Protect, which analysed web traffic sent through the VPN to provide statistics on the usage of other apps.

Guy Rosen and Roi Tiger founded Onavo in 2010. In October 2013, Onavo was acquired by Facebook, which used Onavo's analytics platform to monitor competitors. This influenced Facebook to make various business decisions, including its 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp.

Since the acquisition, Onavo was frequently classified as being spyware, as the VPN was used to monetize application usage data collected within an allegedly privacy-focused environment. In August 2018, Facebook was forced to pull Onavo Protect from the iOS App Store due to violations of Apple's policy forbidding apps from collecting data on the usage of other apps. In February 2019, in response to criticism over a Facebook market research program employing similar techniques (including, in particular, being targeted towards teens), Onavo announced that it would close the Android version of Protect as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnezia_VPN

I guess the broken clock thing applies for the Mullvad recommendation. I haven’t seen any issues with them and they have had a good track record.

I tried Proton mail and was surprised of how aggressively they were upselling. Seemed like they were ran by venture capitalists although a non-profit controls the majority share.

I think this might be a multi level move to get you to do just that (and to push whatever that other vpn is) Imo the best thing to do is disregard anything meta says and keep up your own diligence

Owned by an Israeli billionaire, with all the implications that come with that.

Wouldn't touch PIA even with a 10 foot long pole after all their past controversies.

I think you mean Kape or whatever advertiser bought them

• owned by Israeli billionaire
• based in the UK, subject to UK laws
• chief tech officer was previously the CEO of a Bitcoin exchange company and was convicted of fraud for stealing from it

Which you shouldn’t continue to do.

https://cyberinsider.com/kape-technologies-owns-expressvpn-cyberghost-pia-zenmate-vpn-review-sites/

I bought a year of PIA before I found this out, after Mullvad dropped port forwarding. I guess I'll switch to Proton?