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Facebook Testing Feature That Would Hide ‘Like’ Counts
The total likes and reactions a post receives will reportedly only be accessible to the post’s creator. Followers will see if their Facebook friends liked or reacted to the post. Facebook might soon hide “like” counts in a bid to protect your mental health. Facebook has been prototyping the feature in its Android app, according […]
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Netflix, YouTube, Prime Video, and Hulu Dominate Streaming for Now
The big four streaming apps make up the majority over over-the-top (OTT) viewing right now, but that may change as Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and NBCUniversal enter the market and take back sitcoms like ‘Friends’ and ‘The Office.’ In the past few months, everything Netflix has spent billions preparing for has begun to come […]
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Google Pulls YouTube Channels For Hong Kong Protest Misinformation
Google hasn’t listed the 210 channels it disabled, so it remains unclear what was exactly posted. But the take down occurs as a Chinese state-run media outlet has been placing ads over YouTube critical of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests. Google has disabled 210 channels on YouTube for circulating misinformation about the ongoing pro-democracy protests […]
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Facebook is changing the name of Instagram and WhatsApp
Sources claim both apps will be re-branded by Facebook Facebook confirmed that it’s changing the name of its two most popular apps, Instagram and WhatsApp, to better disclose its ownership of the apps. Soon, Instagram will be known as “Instagram from Facebook” while WhatsApp will become “WhatsApp from Facebook.” The re-branding effort was discovered on […]
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Over 400M Facebook User Phone Numbers Exposed
The phone numbers were discovered on a server without password protection so anyone could view them. 133 million are for US Facebook users. Facebook may be giving privacy a try, but it clearly isn’t working too well after 419 million Facebook user phone numbers were discovered on an unprotected server. As TechCrunch reports, the numbers […]
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Netflix Experiment Requests ‘Physical Activity Data’
The Android app experiment set off alarms among privacy-conscious subscribers, but Netflix says it’s all about trying to optimize video streaming for users on the go. Netflix’s latest experiment is raising eyebrows for trying to collect “physical activity data” from people’s smartphones. Last week, a Twitter user noticed the odd request from Netflix’s Android app, […]
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YouTube Premium 1080p Offline Downloads Spotted
If you subscribe to YouTube Premium the video downloads have been limited to 720p quality, but some users are starting to see an option for 1080p downloads. YouTube Premium comes with a number of perks in return for the subscription price, with one of those being downloads for offline viewing rather than streaming. Now it […]
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Netflix Ships Its 5 Billionth DVD
We think of Netflix as a streaming service in 2019, but it still make millions from shipping rental DVDs out to customers every month. On April 14, 1998, Netflix launched with 925 titles available to rent on DVD. 21 years later and the company has just shipped its five billionth disc to customers. As Engadget […]
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Netflix premieres in September 2019
September is already shaping up to be a huge month for new Netflix Originals. We’ve got your big preview of everything that’s planned for release so far throughout the month of September. The full list of what’s coming to Netflix in September will likely be available by the end of August 2019. Elite (Season 2)Netflix […]
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