The European Commission is cracking down on the way Facebook gathers information about European users. A new EC Directive will ban targeted advertising unless users specifically say they want it. This is great news for European Facebook users, especially after the case of 24-year-old Austrian law student Max Schrems who, in late October, started an online campaign aimed at forcing Facebook to abide by European data privacy laws.
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In the facebook developers console for your app, go to App Review-> Permissions and Features. Set the public_profile and email to have advanced access. This will allow all facebook users to have access and these two settings are auto granted. Ensure the Access Level indicates Advanced Access
11/29/2024 - 6:04 pm | View Website - new messenger opens links in EDGE instead of default browser.
Hover over that icon and it should say 'Install Facebook'. This will install Messenger as a Google Chrome app and allow you to open links in Chrome instead of being forced to use Edge given the recent changes.
11/29/2024 - 10:11 am | View Website - Decoding facebook's blob video url
In Google Chrome, go to Facebook. Open the Chrome Developer Tools (F12). Go to the Network tab in the Developer Tools (it's at the top of the Developer Tools window) Play the video you would like to download on Facebook. Let it play for a few seconds and look at the Network tab during that. Long strings of numbers will appear every couple of ...
11/29/2024 - 9:28 am | View Website - Facebook Callback appends '#_=_' to Return URL
A workaround that worked for me (using Backbone.js), was to add "#/" to the end of the redirect URL passed to Facebook. Facebook will keep the provided fragment, and not append its own "_=_". Upon return, Backbone will remove the "#/" part. For AngularJS, appending "#!" to the return URL should work.
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"You should not store Facebook CDN URLs for long time use – they can change over time. Either request the actual image and copy that to your server – or request the current CDN URL regularly. (You might be tempted to try other workarounds, like extracting the actual image source URL from the CDN link, but I would advise against that ...
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