Desperate Facebook poisons the well, spamming disenchanted users with torrents of notifications, including through 2FA
As Facebook users drift away from the platform, the company is becoming increasingly desperate to lure them back, doubling down on its obnoxious tactic of spamming users whose activity has fallen off with notifications intended to pique their interest in using the service again. The service is scraping the barrel for things to notify users about -- "acquaintance comments on someone else's photo" -- and also desperately using two-factor authentication channels like SMS to send these missives. Facebook's response about what was happening with SMS messages didn't shed very much light on the issue. "We give people control over their notifications, including those that relate to security features like two-factor authentication. But in a blog post Friday, Facebook's security head Alex Stamos described the SMS spam as a bug.
Facebook bug caused 800,000 accounts to unblock some users
in addition InternetFacebook bug caused 800,000 accounts to unblock some usersMost of those affected had just one previously blocked account become unblocked. Facebook announced today that over 800,000 users were affected by a bug that unblocked some people that they had blocked on the site. Facebook said the bug was active between May 29th and June 5th and that around 83 percent of affected users had just one blocked person become unblocked as a result. Facebook has been dealing with a number of privacy issues surrounding its platform including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and a bug that changed 14 million users' privacy setting defaults to public. Unblocking blocked accounts without a users' consent is a major blunder on Facebook's part and one that could have caused some users harm.
Desperate Facebook poisons the well, spamming disenchanted users with torrents of notifications, including through 2FA
As Facebook users drift away from the platform, the company is becoming increasingly desperate to lure them back, doubling down on its obnoxious tactic of spamming users whose activity has fallen off with notifications intended to pique their interest in using the service again. The service is scraping the barrel for things to notify users about -- "acquaintance comments on someone else's photo" -- and also desperately using two-factor authentication channels like SMS to send these missives. Facebook's response about what was happening with SMS messages didn't shed very much light on the issue. "We give people control over their notifications, including those that relate to security features like two-factor authentication. But in a blog post Friday, Facebook's security head Alex Stamos described the SMS spam as a bug.
according to InternetFacebook bug caused 800,000 accounts to unblock some usersMost of those affected had just one previously blocked account become unblocked. Facebook announced today that over 800,000 users were affected by a bug that unblocked some people that they had blocked on the site. Facebook said the bug was active between May 29th and June 5th and that around 83 percent of affected users had just one blocked person become unblocked as a result. Facebook has been dealing with a number of privacy issues surrounding its platform including the Cambridge Analytica scandal and a bug that changed 14 million users' privacy setting defaults to public. Unblocking blocked accounts without a users' consent is a major blunder on Facebook's part and one that could have caused some users harm.
Facebook bug caused 800,000 accounts to unblock some users
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