{"id":258259,"date":"2018-05-02T08:33:49","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=258259"},"modified":"2018-05-02T08:36:10","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T06:36:10","slug":"facebook-launching-clear-history-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/258259-facebook-launching-clear-history-function.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launching &#8220;clear history&#8221; function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/zuck\/posts\/10104899855107881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it will launch a new privacy control called &#8220;Clear History&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the new feature is under development.<\/p>\n<p>He likened the function to the ability to clear your cookies and history in your web browser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once we roll out this update, you&#8217;ll be able to see information about the apps and websites you&#8217;ve interacted with, and you&#8217;ll be able to clear this information from your account,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ll even be able to turn off having this information stored with your account.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He warned that when you clear the cookies in your browser, however, it can make the user experience worse.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may have to sign back in to every website, and you may have to reconfigure things. The same will be true here. Your Facebook won&#8217;t be as good while it relearns your preferences,&#8221; said Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Clear History is an example of the kind of control its users should have, and\u00a0something privacy advocates have been asking for, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re working to make sure these controls are clear, and we will have more to come soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/258241-facebook-to-roll-out-new-dating-feature.html\">Facebook to roll out new dating feature<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook will launch a new privacy control called &#8220;Clear History&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":254201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[161,50421,1767],"class_list":["post-258259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-clear-history","tag-mark-zuckerberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258259"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":258267,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258259\/revisions\/258267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}