Software & Design
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Facebook Told Us to Suck It, For a Change
Attention, haters: you have officially been put on notice by Facebook’s VP of Global Affairs Nick Clegg.
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Firefox’s Latest Update Promises Complete Cookie Control — With Just A Few Caveats
Mozilla beefed up Firefox’s already impressive arsenal of privacy-preserving tech on Tuesday with the addition of a new tool in its flagship browser: Total Cookie Protection. As the name suggests, the feature promises to put the lid on any creepy cookies or third-party tracking tech that might want to track your behaviour from site to…
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Instagram, TikTok and Pinterest Add Support Features to Help Users Struggling With Eating Disorders
Social media has long been the bane and the muse of anyone suffering from an eating disorder. To exist online with a pulse in the year 2012 was to understand the cesspool of “thinspiration”-style content that proliferated on platforms like Tumblr, Xanga and Pinterest, and more recently, the rise of “influencer” culture has all but…
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Clubhouse Promises To Get Its Security Under Control (Again)
Clubhouse — the invitation-only audio app best known for courting everyone from Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg — has promised to implement new safeguards after suffering its second high-profile security snafu this month.