Since 2016, Facebook has been paying users ages 13 to 35 up to $20 per month to sell their privacy by installing the iOS or Android Facebook Research app. Facebook even asked users to screenshot their Amazon order history page. The program is administered through beta testing services Applause, BetaBound and uTest to cloak Facebooks involvement. Apple shut down Facebook’s Ovano VPN in August for collecting this exact type of data. Facebook is betting that their apps are too popular, that they can do what they want.”]
Source: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/01/29/facebook-teens-vpn