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Facebook has started asking some users “Does this post contain hate speech?”

Posted on May 1, 2018

As you surely already know, the opinions and attitudes of Facebook users vary widely.

After all, with 1.5 billion users there are going to be people expressing opinions that don’t exactly match with those of other users.

Unfortunately, some of the views expressed in the posts, memes and videos can be quite offensive to some users.

But at what point does a post cross the line into what is commonly referred to nowadays as “hate speech”?

Well, Facebook has come up with a plan to find out, and they want you to help!

Starting today, some users are now seeing this question on every post that shows up in their newsfeed:  [Read more…]

Facebook warns that more ‘Cambridge Analytica’ style data breaches are likely to be announced

Posted on May 1, 2018

As a public company, Facebook is required to submit a current financial report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) once every 90 days.

Each of those quarterly reports are required to include anything that could possibly affect the value of the company’s stock in a negative way.

Well, Facebook’s most recent quarterly report is warning investors that they’re expecting to discover additional data breaches similar to the Cambridge Analytica breach that’s been all over the news of late.  [Read more…]

Bad news: Opera will be removing the free integrated VPN service from their browsers on April 30

Posted on April 26, 2018

A while back I wrote a post discussing Opera’s addition of a free VPN service that’s integrated right into their awesome Opera desktop and mobile browsers.

I’ve used the free Opera VPN ever since it was first introduced because I really love the convenience of having my VPN seamlessly integrated into my web browser.

Unfortunately, Opera has just announced they’ll be removing the free integrated VPN service from their browsers at the end this month.  [Read more…]

Wikipedia just a got a lot easier to use thanks to ‘Page Previews’

Posted on April 24, 2018

Wikipedia is the world’s most popular online encyclopedia, and I use it fairly often when I’m looking for a quick overview of some topic.

If you use Wikipedia as well you’ve probably noticed that most of the articles on there contain quite a few links.

In fact, longer articles typically have dozens of them!

One of the most frustrating things about reading a Wikipedia article is having to click on all those links just to learn the context of the linked term.

Reading a Wikipedia article usually goes something like this:  [Read more…]

Great news: Flickr is no longer owned by Yahoo!

Posted on April 23, 2018

The other day I wrote about how Oath’s new Terms of Service (TOS) totally trash your privacy if you use either Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail.

After that post went live I received several emails asking me about Flickr, Yahoo’s ultra-popular photo hosting service.  [Read more…]

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