Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered facebooks user IDs [video]

Re:Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered faceboo... by amelius on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:55PM (#21917033)

I hate Facebook. For its user tracking practices, their attention hacking, and their UX is terrible too. I only use Facebook because others post events on it, and I can't convince these people to use open alternatives.

How can you feel proud about such a product?

PS: Yesterday I got an email from Facebook saying that I had 4 messages waiting for me. I opened the app, it showed a little balloon with "4" in it. I clicked it, and there were no messages ... sigh.

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Re:Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered faceboo... by 867-5309 on Monday December 30, 2019 @06:43PM (#21917725)

>Yesterday I got an email from Facebook saying that I had 4 messages waiting for me. I opened the app, it showed a little balloon with "4" in it. I clicked it, and there were no messages

I also get this, but now it's always stuck at some arbitrarily high number. in the past few years I've reduced my fb usage to a couple of minutes per month, down from a few minutes per day. I'm sure it's underhand tactics like these (tricking a billion dormant users) which upholds their claim of 2 billion "active" users or whatever bullshit number it is

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Re:Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered faceboo... by cpv on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @02:08AM (#21919470)

Such notifications (email, text) can be disabled in the settings.

And you can visit the app/web when you feel like, not when they want.

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Re:Fake “like” factories – how we reverse engineered faceboo... by Can_Not on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @05:17PM (#21931118)

You can disable receiving emails in general, sure, but you can't disable the fake/lie notifications or the daily "please pay us $XX to promote your page"

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