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posted by Fnord666 on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the I-see-what-you're-doing-there dept.

Facebook pilot links user profiles with online news subscriptions:

It works like this: When Facebook identifies that a user subscribes to a participating publisher, it will invite the user to link their subscription account. Once the accounts are connected, if the user clicks on a paywalled link via Facebook, they won't have to sign-in to access the content. Users who link their Facebook and news accounts will also see more stories from those publishers in Facebook News.

Facebook is testing the feature with a handful of publishers, ranging from The Atlantic to the Winnipeg Free Press, and early test results are promising. In June, subscribers who linked their Facebook accounts made 111 percent more article clicks compared to those who didn't link their accounts, Facebook said in a blog post.


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:38AM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 03 2020, @08:38AM (#1045775) Journal

    Volunteer. You too can see hashed IP addresses, if you volunteer, and become part of the staff. There is no great mystery behind gaining access to staff tools.

    This complaint is on par with complaining about submissions. Want better submissions? Make better submissions. Want better staff? Volunteer to be better staff. Want to sit around and complain? Well, make better complaints, alright?

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  • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday September 03 2020, @02:13PM

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Thursday September 03 2020, @02:13PM (#1045855) Journal
    The whiner apparently doesn't know that a proper hash algorithm is one-way. You can compare two hashes to see if they are the same, but that doesn't give you the original IP.

    Best to use IP6, hashes of IP4 are relatively trivial to construct rainbow tables for if you have the bashing algorithm - but really, who cares? Except spammers and certain asswipes.

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