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Facebook launches bulk app removal tool amidst privacy scandal
Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, users have flocked to their Facebook privacy settings to sever their connection to third-party apps that they no longer wanted to have access to their data. But deleting them all took forever because you had to remove them one by one. Now Facebook has released a new way to select…
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Instagram suddenly chokes off developers as Facebook chases privacy
Without warning, Instagram has broken many of the unofficial apps built on its platform. This weekend it surprised developers with a massive reduction in how much data they can pull from the Instagram API, shrinking the API limit from 5,000 to 200 calls per user per hour. Apps that help people figure out if their…
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Facebook makes its privacy, data downloading and deletion settings easier to find
With Facebook facing a wave of public backlash over how it has handled user data over the years — a backlash that was kicked off two weeks ago with the revelation that data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica had worked on targeted election campaigns using personal and private Facebook data — the company today announced a…
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Facebook fights creeps and apathy with expiring friend requests
Snapchat has ephemeral messages, and now Facebook has ephemeral friend requests. The big blue social network feeds off your social graph, and every time you expand it, it has more content to show you. But if you leave a questionable friend request in limbo for too long, you’ll probably never confirm or delete it. So Facebook…
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Las comunidades X comienzan a parecerse más a grupos de Facebook con una nueva función de verificación de miembros
X es adoptando una característica que se utiliza actualmente en muchos grupos de Facebook para examinar a los miembros antes de unirse: preguntas obligatorias. La compañía anteriormente conocida como Twitter anunció hoy que los administradores de comunidades privadas en X ahora pueden exigir a los usuarios que respondan una pregunta cuando soliciten unirse, además de…