when using their services

Have I got some bad news for you...

Yes, so like 12 years ago I was thinking - maybe they won't do such bad things, maybe it's a purely hypothetical possibility, surely someone will catch them outright spying.

Yet suppose that back then Zuck rolled out an update with hidden functionality to spy at some underage girl, and then rolled it back. Who would check every FB application update? And if the hidden functionality looked enough like a bug (matching only a handful of device IDs of millions), then who'd become suspicious? There have been many updates with many bugs.

And Zuck surely behaves as if such thing happened many times.

I just hope more people in Russia will switch to Briar, it IMHO seems to have all the necessary Telegram-like functionality other than channels, votes, video uploading .... But that's probably intended, too much data to synchronize. Text and pics are a lot.

Meta is an arm of Russia propaganda machine