Tag Archives: Facebook

Facebook has silently added an option to its iOS app that pushes users to install a VPN client called Onavo Protect on their devices. The option, which comes under the title ‘Protect’, redirects users directly to the Onavo Protect app’s listing on the App Store. Interestingly, Facebook reportedly acquired Onavo Protect back in 2013, and…

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Today, screenshots depicting a new “downvote” button on Facebook began circulating on Twitter, leading some to speculate that the social network is actively testing a ranking mechanism similar to Reddit’s community-controlled comment system. The company has officially confirmed the test to The Verge, but a Facebook spokesperson says it’s only intended to be a method…

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Facebook has filed a patent application for a technology that will automatically detect the users’ socio-economic status and segregate them in one of three classes — working class, middle class or upper class. According to the patent, the social media giant wants to build a system that collects users’ personal data, such as education, homeownership and…

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The social media industry may have to struggle to rehydrate in light of some surprising and troubling metrics Facebook released on Wednesday. In addition to a pause in user growth, there have been signs that user engagement may have reversed course. The decline may have something to do with Facebook’s efforts to recover from accusations…

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Increasingly, we are seeing web applications that are developed using a single page architecture, where the entire application is loaded into the browser as JavaScript and then all interactions with the server are carried out using HTTP based APIs that return JSON documents. Often, these applications will require some level of user-restricted interactions, e.g. for…

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