Monday, December 29, 2014

Your hidden Facebook photos were never really hidden. This app finds them

Facebook-105-1
Feed-twFeed-fb

Hiding photos on Facebook may not actually work as well as you think it does.

Picturebook, a browser extension now available in the Chrome web store, claims to allow you to "view hidden photos of anyone on Facebook"— even if you aren't friends with them

Sounds like a Facebook creeper's dream, right? But though Picturebook's description is technically true, it is also misleading

No app or browser extension — this one included — is able to change the privacy settings of someone else's photo. What Picturebook is really doing: surfacing photos that you could have seen anyway, even if a user tagged in them hid them from their timeline Read more...

More about Facebook, Social Media, Tech, Google Chrome, and Chrome Extensions

No comments:

Post a Comment