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Admiral Beez
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They’re in hot water again. The Aussies seem to have sorted out how to best curtail FB
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/24/...ia-comments.html?referringSource=articleShare
tripwire
Active Member
I've been using (FB) Messenger Lite -> a stripped down Messenger smartphone app. I'd be really happy if there was a Group Lite app that's just for the FB Groups but in a stripped down fashion. I can actually cut myself off from FB Groups, but a few international friends mainly use Messenger, and that's the biggest reason why I still have a FB account at all.
I need to get myself away from Gmail as well honestly. I just recently found out that they record your purchases from the email order receipts. *sigh* They claim they don't use the data for tracking, but the "do no evil" Google left the building at least a decade ago.
https://mastodon.social/@gerowen/106978308085702358 and https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-history-gmail-email-receipts
I need to get myself away from Gmail as well honestly. I just recently found out that they record your purchases from the email order receipts. *sigh* They claim they don't use the data for tracking, but the "do no evil" Google left the building at least a decade ago.
https://mastodon.social/@gerowen/106978308085702358 and https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-history-gmail-email-receipts
gabe
Senior Member
Cyber attack? Wat's app , Instagram, Facebook are all down. Apparently QuickBooks is also down and People have reported having difficulties with Amazon too.
Twitter is running fine. So people can still post pictures of their cats.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8241546/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-down-3/
Twitter is running fine. So people can still post pictures of their cats.
https://globalnews.ca/news/8241546/facebook-instagram-whatsapp-down-3/
DownDetector is showing some Twitter problems, although it is fine for me
Bayer
Senior Member
I am delirious at the thought of seeing a hypothetical destroyer of Facebook accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
W. K. Lis
Superstar
gabe
Senior Member
My thoughts and prayers are with all the computer/phone/internet tech support workers around the world. Lord knows how many millions of people are calling them saying "fix my phone and internet! Facebook and Instagram aren't working!!!
gabe
Senior Member
Ruh roh!
Twitter has a sense of humour
What took Facebook down | ZDNet
DNS appears to be a symptom of the root cause of Facebook's global failure. Hours later, Facebook finally came back up.
www.zdnet.com
gabe
Senior Member
Techpocalypse! This is why i still keep lots of cash in my safe. I wouldn't be surprised if we wake up one day and log on to our bank accounts and see our money stolen by hackers. I don't use any digital banking apps. i pay cash for most things, I try to limit the possibility of my debit card number being available for steal where ever possible. My mom had her unused TD account hacked last year. She didn't even use her debit card with TD because of lockdowns. Her main bank is RBC. This was all on TD's end. They got crappy online security.
Cash will always be king.
Cash will always be king.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
And of course, 60 Minutes did a piece on FB yesterday night; and there are rumours of a breach today with the personal info of 1.5B users being exposed.
Shut it down and salt the earth it grew on.
AoD
Shut it down and salt the earth it grew on.
AoD
Johnny Au
Senior Member
...and Time Magazine Person of the Year.
After all, the Zucks himself won it in the past. It's time a Facebook destroyer becomes Time Magazine Person of the Year as well.