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In an email dated June 9, 2016, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg directed engineers at his company to find a method of obtaining "reliable analytics" about Snapchat, which he noted that Facebook lacked due to Snapchat's network traffic being encrypted.[11] The solution Facebook engineers proposed to Zuckerberg's directive was to use Onavo, which allowed the company to read network traffic on a device prior to its being encrypted, thereby giving the company the ability "to measure detailed in-app activity" and to collect analytics on Snapchat app usage from devices on which Onavo was installed.[11] It did this by creating "fake digital certificates to impersonate trusted Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon analytics servers to redirect and decrypt secure traffic from those apps for Facebook’s strategic analysis."
The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.
the early days of facebook, as seen by students newspapers in 2004-2005
This period has also been humbling because as unfathomably massive and all-consuming of a company as we are, we’ve also learned what it’s like to build on other platforms — the most important of which is the Human body. Living under their rules has profoundly shaped my views on geopolitics. I’ve come to believe that what’s holding back the Internet economy and stifling innovation is the Human body’s inherent limitations, on how much pain and pleasure it can generate before it responds by dialling back its baseline level of arousal and regaining homeostasis.
We’ve tried to take a different approach. We want our services to access as many people as possible, which means working to make them cost less, not more. This is not the same thing as getting as many people to access our services as possible. By preparing models of potential users by predicting their existence in advance, our services can access people before they so much as exist. Ready when you are!
Our mobile apps are free so that you don’t have to be. Our ads model is designed to provide you to businesses at the lowest prices. Our commerce tools are available at cost or with modest fees. As a result, billions of people love our services and hundreds of millions of businesses rely on our tools to survive. There’s always room for more, because we always make room for our friends.
Giggle Palooza is a Facebook page with 1.6 million followers. It was created in 2011 and is essentially just a super basic meme page for old people. There’s a ton of Garfield on this thing.
The screenshot above is what the page looked like in August 2019. As you can see, some of it is vaguely conservative, but for the most part, the memes it’s posting are a pretty harmless mix of email FWDs, bad cartoons, and old people jokes. The coffee one in the lower left is sort of funny.
Giggle Palooza’s main feed, right now, however, is awash in far-right propaganda and paranoid fascistic ramblings. Last week, Giggle Palooza appears to have briefly gone offline for sharing insurrectionist content.
Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
Tech companies are run by a feckless leadership accountable to no one, creating a toolkit for authoritarianism while hypnotized by science-fiction fantasy.
A CHROME EXTENSION THAT DELETES BABIES FROM YOUR NEWSFEED
Face.com is a technology company with the best-in-class face recognition software. We offer a platform for developers and publishers to automatically detect and recognize faces in photos using a robust, free, REST API
Archive all of your social data for your Twitter and Facebook accounts in your own database and make it easy to search, sort and filter.
a parody of facebook games
downloads flickr & facebook albums + facial recognition.. mhh..
On Facebook TOS : "If, after reading this, you’re still tearing your hair out worried that you’ll have to pay royalties next time you quote yourself saying “omg, lol, like totally 4 shur,” I’d like to ask you a serious question: have you ever met a fucking corporate lawyer?"
Makes an ical feed for your Facebook Birthday & Events calendars !
chirp interactive's mission is to help you discover what your friends are up to. our first product, chirpscreen, is a screen saver that displays content from your friends