Questions tagged [facebook]
Facebook is a popular social networking website.
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Why does Meta (Facebook) use mono-repo in their source control? [closed]
Meta maintains all their code in a single repository and initially used Git. Due to performance issues attributed to the repo's size, they consulted Git's team, who suggested switching to a multi-repo ...
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How can a third-party site know your identity on other sites (e.g. Off-Facebook Activity)? [closed]
I'm a software engineer by trade, yet I am shocked and fascinated by something I learned just recently. For example, I found out Facebook has businesses and sites share information about my activity ...
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How can a website get the phone number of the device used to call it?
I'm not registered with Facebook and I've never logged in to Facebook inside the browser I use, Today I enter the site facebook.com and see my actual phone number on the sign in page with this message:...
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Why does this cat picture trigger a Facebook warning about violent/graphic content?
Facebook systems claim that this picture may contain violent or graphic content.
(When opening the link, Facebook asks you to login. I suppose it's because Facebook considers the image offensive and ...
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What is the right approach to save user agent info during login to web / app?
As you know Facebook saves login sessions and we can see them in settings where we've logged in.
Now, they show IP address, Phone name (if logged in with phone) and App name in the phone and Browser ...
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Database structure for combaning local login with social login
I'm implementing a platform where users can create an account with my system and use it to login. Also I allow them to add any external login (social login) such as Facebook, Google, Twitter and so on....
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What does GRAPH stand for in the term Azure AD Graph API or Facebook Open Graph API
I'm doing some research on authentication methods and I've noticed that not only does Azure call their cloud Active Directory interface API the "Graph API" but also Facebook use the same term with ...
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Design a program to download a facebook group data [closed]
I have a study facebook group which has a lot of information. The size is about ~10k post and 30k comments/replies etc... making it very hard to search on facebook itself.
So I am trying to dump the ...
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Is it a bad idea to use Facebook friendships as sole source of filtering content?
I'm writing a social app in Django where all users sign up through Facebook using Python Social Auth. All content that a user sees will be content created by her Facebook friends. Initially, I planned ...
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Understanding Flux pattern
I'm actually studying the flux pattern and there's something that I can't understand concerning the stores.
What are they exactly?
I have read many articles, and it seems that it concerns the ...
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Best way to design a database interface [duplicate]
This is my situation
I have a website, mobile client and desktop client.
They can all pretty much do the same operations (website might be able to do more now but in the future they might have the ...
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Using Facebook to authenticate, how to link to user record in my app? Email?
I'm using Facebook to authenticate users. We also have conventional username/ password login and registration form too. Anyway, when a user chooses to login with Facebook, we use the following ...
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How to scrub Twitter and Facebook posts for many users
I'm making an Rails app that in theory should scrub new posts from the users facebook and twitter accounts and put them in a timeline for an analyst to analyze and determine if they are good or bad ...
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Common techniques to integrate social media login to a website that requires account registration
I have developed websites where users would register with a username of their choice and an entry would be created in a database table that holds their username and some sort of salted password. They ...
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What is the use of the prefix "for(;;);" in an Ajax response
After using the chrome debugger to inspect the ajax requests of Facebook (for curiosity), I noticed that the response is in JSON, however it is always prefixed with
for(;;);
In example, if the JSON ...
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