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The way Facebook is blocked depends on who is carrying out the blockade:
However, the result is always the same: you can’t access Facebook.
The basic components of a functional VPN will allow it to easily bypass the major ways of blocking Facebook:
Using a VPN is legal in most countries of the world.
Also, using a VPN will not get your Facebook account banned.
Using a VPN to unblock Facebook means that all of your data between you and the VPN server is encrypted. This means that if Facebook Messenger traffic was not encrypted and someone was monitoring your data, they could see what you’re sending if you weren’t using a VPN.
However, VPN encryption does not hide your messages from Facebook – the messaging service wouldn’t be able to work otherwise. What a VPN does hide is the fact that you’re using Facebook Messenger from anyone monitoring your data – like internet service providers.
Facebook can track you even with a VPN on due to the permissions you gave it. On phones, you probably allowed Facebook to track your location using GPS and other means like Google Geolocation services. Essentially, it knows where you are because you agreed to tell it where you are.
No, not by default. Facebook, its app, social logins, and widgets embedded on many websites are all used to track you. You might be able to avoid Facebook tracking if you don’t log in or use a new browser in private browsing mode.
The question of a VPN vs. proxy comes up quite often because, just like a VPN, a proxy routes your connection through another server. But that is it – a proxy doesn’t encrypt your connection. So if you’re worried not only about being able to access Facebook but also hiding the fact that you’re doing it, you need a VPN.
