Facebook is testing a pop-up chat-like feature for comment threads on desktop Comments on Facebook posts can get quite chatty, so Facebook is trying a new way to help you keep up. Some users now see comment reels appearing …

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Facebook Will Force Ads, Despite Ad-Blockers Facebook will use technology to circumvent ad-blocking software and force advertising to appear to users of its desktop website. Photo: Zuma Press

Facebook Will Force Advertising on Ad-Blocking Users 26% of U.S. internet users now use ad blockers on their desktop devices.

More Than Half Of Facebook Users Only Use It On Mobile Devices What's a desktop?

Facebook Tests "Click For More" To Boost Video Views On Desktop Facebook says it now gets around 8 billion video views on its platform each day, and the social network has made no secret of its plans to make it an even bigger part of the experience in the future.Now Facebook is testing a new "click for more" feat Read more ... ure for desktop users of the service. Currently, clicking not just on the words -- which appear in a place where they will be hard to miss, centered in the bottom, just above the video controls -- but anywhere on the video will take users to a new window. There, they get an enlarged view of the video on a darkened screen, along with a carousel of related videos interspersed with video ads. You can choose what to watch, or let them autoplay.Facebook has confirmed to us that this is the web-based test it alluded to when it announced in October that it would start to ...

How Facebook should be designed Facebook’s design has been widely discussed among designers and users, and I’ve seen plenty of criticism: "Why is the design of Facebook's desktop site so

Android Auto now has a desktop emulator for developers Developers who want to make Android apps for cars now have a better way to visualize them. The Android Auto team has announced an emulator they’re calling

How to Stop Videos from Auto-Playing on Facebook Facebook recently introduced auto-playing videos on desktop and mobile, but thankfully there’s a switch to opt out. Here’s what you have to do.

Facebook to allow users to send money to friends through Messenger Users can tap or click a dollar icon in a new chat window to send money to their friends, after they link a Visa or MasterCard debit card issued by a U.S. bank to their accounts. The free feature will roll out over the next few months for users in th Read more ... e United States who access Facebook Messenger through desktop computers or Google Inc's Android and Apple Inc's iOS operating systems on mobile devices.