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January 20, PM 0. Nitro PDF user records' contents. Nitro PDF database leaked for free. Sergiu Gatlan Sergiu Gatlan is a reporter who covered cybersecurity, technology, Apple, Google, and a few other topics at Softpedia for more than a decade. But for spam based on using phone number alone, it's gold. Not just SMS, there are heaps of services that just require a phone number these days and now there's hundreds of millions of them conveniently categorised by country with nice mail merge fields like name and gender.
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Tablets Smartwatches Speakers Drones. Accessories Buying Guides How-tos Deals. In , Facebook made major changes to its app developer platform — but a chosen few partners were "whitelisted," meaning they got more access to data than regular developers using Facebook's platform. These included Airbnb, Netflix , and Lyft. In one of the emails, Zuckerberg candidly admits that Facebook's interests aren't always aligned with those of its users and the broader world.
Discussing third-party apps' access to Facebook's platform, the CEO talked about how to try to ensure users shared content on Facebook, rather than external platforms — even if it isn't in the users' best interests. So ultimately, I think the purpose of platform - even the read side is to increase sharing back into Facebook," he wrote. Facebook has insisted that it has never sold user data — but one of the revelations from the documents is that the company discussed the possibility of charging for access to it.
In one October email, Zuckerberg discussed a monetization model that would let developers use Facebook's login tools or publish to Facebook for free, but would charge for "reading" data. Pushing content to Facebook is always free Reading anything, including friends, costs a lot of money.
In its response, Facebook said: "We explored multiple ways to build a sustainable business with developers who were building apps that were useful to people. But instead of requiring developers to buy advertising — the option discussed in these cherrypicked emails — we ultimately settled on a model where developers did not need to purchase advertising to access APIs and we continued to provide the developer platform for free. According to an email written by exec Sam Lessin in addressed to Zuckerberg, it's not one rival site or app — it's lots of them.
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