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November 25, 2019 08:27 pm

Facebook launches new market research app after shutting down its controversial VPN service




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Facebook has a new market research app launching today called Viewpoints, just a few months after the company introduced an Android data collection app called Study designed to monitor what and for how long users are accessing other software on the Google-owned operating system.


Both apps have a controversial history. In January, Facebook shut down a market research app ostensibly offered as a virtual private network (VPN) provider. It was marketed to teens and used a special software certificate Apple gives out to businesses, designed mainly to allow the distribution of internal apps to employees, but not the public.



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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/25/20982367/facebook-viewpoints-new-market-research-app-study-survey-rewards

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