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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed it is blocking such efforts.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are they afraid of legality and doing something so fishy that there's no way it would fly in EU?

Or is it just that this day and age it's expected that VPNs are blocked? Like with Netflix etc.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Facebook isn't interested in complying to EU's privacy laws at this point, so they're blocking it off entirely