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#Hashtags Hit Facebook – #WhatDoYouThink

The Social Media Incubator

In an announcement by the social networking service giant on Wednesday, Facebook informed users of the rollout of hashtags to status updates. That being said, many are skeptical on the use of hashtags on Facebook. Facebook Online marketing Social Media News business marketing hashtags marketing Social Media social networking Twitter'

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Meet the Fediverse

Ari Herzog

By contrast, larger and older services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat only allow people who have accounts to message each other. It’s not possible for a Facebook user to message a Twitter user. The larger services have corporate investment, advertisements, and privacy concerns. Meet Mastodon.

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The Feud Over Apple Privacy Label – Tech-Giants Don’t Like It

Tweaklibrary

Apple did it in a somewhat exciting fashion – Apple Privacy Labels. Though the companies do explain about all the data they take in their Privacy policy but let’s be reasonable, who reads that? Now looking at the Privacy labels, Isn’t it much easier this way to be aware of the privacy policy and software’s intrusion in your lives?

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Former Facebook User Explains Why He Quit

Ari Herzog

When the Federal Trade Commission and other regulatory and free speech advocates focus their eagle eyes on Facebook , management perks. It is for this reason that I was intrigued after reading an anti-corporation blog post by Adriel Hampton in which he shared he deleted his Facebook account. Facebook has gone rogue.

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Bitcoin Use-Cases: BAT Crypto Token and Brave Browser Show Glimpse That in the Future, the Internet IS the Browser!

Stay N' Alive

When you visit Facebook, your profile information, the conversations you participate in, and even the websites you visit (via a pixel they give to publishers) all get stored somewhere on Facebook’s massive server infrastructure. YOUR privacy is the goldmine of the current internet ecosystem. This is how they make money!

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An Explicit Link Between PRISM and Social Media Intelligence

Net-Savvy Executive

Operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week, a staff of 17 officers in the National Domestic Extremism Unit (NDEU) has been scanning the public''s tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook profiles, and anything else UK citizens post in the public online sphere. Data is either public or private, and the private space is shrinking.

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What is OpenVPN | OpenVPN Explained

Tweaklibrary

OpenVPN as a protocol is an open-source protocol and contains rules and procedure to setup a secure connection by encrypting and creating a secure transport for the data to get transmitted from one place to another. Because it is open-source, anyone can use it for free. How does OpenVPN function?