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Here's what a VPN can't protect you from (but you need to use it)

The abbreviation " VPN " has slowly become established among average Internet users, which is certainly good, but the problem is that people have started to see VPN as the ultimate solution to all problems.

Deleted photos from Facebook are still available

Deleted photos from Facebook are still available

Facebook is still working on deleting photos from its servers three years after this problem was first pointed out.

An official representative of the company states that older systems for storing uploaded content did not always delete photos within a reasonable period, even when they were downloaded directly from the site. However, this process on new systems is far faster.

What is also a problem that Facebook obviously does not want to address is the fact that all photos were "deleted" from the social network a few months or a few years ago and are still available via a direct link.

See also: How to detect an FB profile from an image URL?

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