News & Reviews: Facebook
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Jan 16, 2021
Developers of WhatsApp has officially stated on their website, mentioning that they have extended the policy agreement date to 15 May 2021 instead of the initial date of 8 February 2021. With that being said, if you’re still keen on using WhatsApp, you have until the extended date to agree with their new policy.
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Jan 12, 2021
So yes, an unfortunate Malaysian student just lost RM84,600 due to an online scam. According to the Melaka Commercial Crime Investigation Department Chief, Supt E Sundra Rajan told the reporters that it happened not too long ago on 5 January, where she saw a Bitcoin advertisement on Facebook and then got scammed in WhatsApp.
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Jan 11, 2021
Some of you might have already gotten a new message ping from WhatsApp about the new privacy policy which will be shared with Facebook. While they claimed it's for marketing and ads purpose, many see this as an intrusion to their privacy and Elon Musk is telling everyone to switch to Signal.
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Jan 08, 2021
If you have been following the news in the USA, Donald Trump's supporters are surely causing a lot of trouble in the Capitol. Initially, we weren't going to write news about this but apparently, Facebook has decided to ban Trump's account 'indefinitely'. This decision was made by Mark Zuckerberg himself on his Facebook post.
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Jan 07, 2021
With a new year comes new things, such as new products set to flood the upcoming CES 2021 or updates to our favourite services. In the latter category, Facebook is starting off its year with a major update to Facebook Pages.
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Jan 06, 2021
Based on a statement by wabetainfo.com, it seems that the developers of WhatsApp might be planning on developing a fully-fledged WhatsApp client for the PC very soon. While not much is known in regards to the release date of the feature, it does give us a better idea on what to expect as soon as it is globally available.
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Jan 06, 2021
Many of us don't pay attention to the privacy policy of the apps we use. That's why it's good to know when companies decide to update their policy, so we'll know whether they're doing something sneaky. This time around, WhatsApp revealed how its shares data with other Facebook-owned platforms.
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Jan 05, 2021
If you like using Instagram on your PC, you may or may not have seen a new update to the platform. Allegedly, Instagram is working on a new UI design for Instagram Stories for desktop users and has begun to do A/B testing recently.
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Dec 18, 2020
Yesterday, we wrote about how Facebook is attacking Apple for changing their ad-tracking feature. The first one was about claiming the upcoming iOS's App Tracking Transparency is about profit, not privacy which hurts SMEs businesses (we very much doubt so), now they are doing it again with a different angle saying it can make the Internet worse.
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Dec 17, 2020
If you're an Apple fan, you might have come across a piece of news about Facebook attacking Apple about ad-tracking. In fact, they bought a full-page newspaper ads column to address the issue about their policy and boy, we got ourselves some drama here. Apple also just responded but in case you missed it, here's what happened.
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