I think many will be interested in learning how to delete a message on VK. Just yesterday (12/14/2017), in one of the official VKontakte public pages about innovations in the social network, I read that the function of deleting a sent message is available. Once deleted, an SMS disappears not only from your dialogue, but also from the dialogue of your interlocutor.
In today's issue, I considered it necessary to expand on this topic and point out shortcomings and shortcomings. I would also like to make a general conclusion.
Well, let's get started!
New vk algorithms
And precisely because I visit VK extremely rarely, this news reached me with some delay. It turns out that VKontakte has launched a special one. an algorithm that will protect unique content. They called this “miracle” Nemesis. He started working on June 15.
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Now I probably need to explain why I write about this with such sarcasm...
As stated on the official page, this algorithm searches for duplicate content across VK communities. In other words, it analyzes posts in different communities, finds identical ones and sends them for manual moderation. The original or primary source will be considered the entry published earlier in time. Moreover, now any user can report a post if he has already seen it in another community.
And it seems that everything is fine. VKontakte will be cleared of copy-paste. Groups will not steal content from each other. Unscrupulous publics will fall off. Authors who write posts themselves can now sleep peacefully.
BUT. The key idea that you need to understand is that the search for duplicates will be carried out within the social network! And when making a complaint, the user must provide only an internal link to the original.
This means that if the author wrote an article and posted it on his page or in a group, then everything is fine, his post appeared for the first time on him. And if someone copies his work and posts it in their group, then the publication date will be later. This means the author will be able to prove his rights and punish the thief with a strike.
But if you wrote a story, say, on your personal website, and someone copied it to their vk, then for new algorithms it will be the primary source. And you will be tortured to prove your authorship.
Possible problems when removing attachments from messages on VK
When erasing media files from a dialog, the following problems may occur:
- The user still has the information or material that you deleted. Solution: He most likely saved it on his page or device. Ask him to get rid of this content, there are no other ways to delete it.
- Some time after deletion, you needed the material. Solution: Ask a friend whose chat attachments were deleted if he still has a copy. If he doesn’t have it in his correspondence either, he won’t be able to return the file.
There is an article on our website about how to delete all messages on VK.
A little history
Before the arrival of Nemesis, “advanced” public owners knew perfectly well that if they copied content from another Vk page, their post would not have high positions in the search results of, say, Yandex. Because Yandex has already indexed the original text and any repetition will be considered a double. This means there is no point in copying such content to your public page. Well, maybe just so that it flashes once in the subscribers’ news feed. That's all.
Therefore, cunning administrators have long been copying (read, stealing) content not from Vk, but on the Internet. For example, on information sites, and more often on thematic blogs.
Last year I encountered this personally... I’ll tell you how it was...
Safe Alternatives
You can play previously downloaded videos and Flash games offline in third-party PC players - this option is implemented, for example, in PotPlayer, although in most cases this is only a side function of such programs. And to view Flash content on the Internet, you will now need a special emulator, which appeared, as CNews reported, in early December 2021 and, according to the developers, is devoid of the shortcomings of the original player.
Pot Player plays the All your base are belong to us video in Flash format
The project is called Ruffle, its code is written in the Rust language, and behind it is a small group of enthusiastic programmers. The Flash emulator can be used as a standalone application on the client side and embedded in web pages using Webassembly technology. Moreover, site owners do not even need to globally adjust the code - it will be enough to install Ruffle on the server and add just one line of HTML code that loads a special library in Javascript to each page that contains Flash content.
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Encounter with theft on VKontakte
I decided to close one of my sites. It was dedicated only to photography and therefore most of the articles from it would fit very well into the photo section of this site. I decided to remove them from there and move them here.
I wrote and write all the articles exclusively myself. And before publishing, I always check them for uniqueness, achieving 100%.
Imagine my surprise when I checked them again before uploading them here. All articles had 0% uniqueness! And the program showed that the primary sources are several VKontakte groups. One “especially gifted” group managed to steal more than 5 of my articles.
It turns out that at the time of the first publication of these entries, my photo site was naturally the primary source on the Internet. Then these articles were brazenly copied along with the pictures and spread across public pages. And when I removed them from the photo site, the groups where the clones remained were considered the primary source for search engines.
And now, if I publish all my articles here, I can get sanctions from Yandex and Google for unoriginal content.
To begin with, as advised on the forums, I began to write in a polite manner to the group admins with a request to delete individual posts. 2 people apologized and deleted it.
But there were also these answers:
Like this. Someone is writing, trying. But it turns out that stealing content from them is the norm 
Therefore, after unsuccessful attempts to cope on my own, I had to contact VKontakte support so that they would oblige the public to remove the stolen content. You can't imagine how many nerves it took. Even though I had indisputable proof of authorship, I had to:
- correspond with support for several weeks
- send scans and screenshots
- take a photo with your passport at the monitor
- verify ownership of my sites
- and other perversions...
As a result, most of the articles were deleted from vk and later, I was able to publish them here. But several articles remained on VKontakte.
Last five years Flash
Adobe itself did not invent Flash - it just bought this technology as a set with other assets of Macromedia in the second quarter of 2005. But Macromedia did not create it either, doing the same thing as Adobe - in 1996 it acquired the company Futurewave, which was owned by the origins of Flash. The technology received its name in the same 1996, and before that it was known as Futuresplash Animator.
Adobe actively developed Flash until 2015, although it was repeatedly faced with the need to eliminate many vulnerabilities in it. For example, in February 2014 she
a large-scale update for Flash Player that closes a flaw discovered by Kaspersky Lab that allowed hackers to gain full control over the user’s computer.
Adobe gave up on Flash almost six years ago
Also in 2015, she began calling on webmasters and browser developers to abandon Flash in favor of a more reliable technology - HTML5. Back then, no one was talking about the imminent death of Flash, but a year later, in December 2021, Google was among the first to gradually disable Flash in its Chrome browser and replace it with HTML5 from December 2021.
The fate of Flash was decided only in July 2021, when Adobe publicly announced its intention to leave this technology in the past. She immediately set a deadline for the complete cessation of its support - no later than December 31, 2021. Thus, both website owners and Internet software developers had 2.5 years to complete the transition to using HTML5.
Adobe kept its word and stopped the further development of Flash on the last day of 2021. And immediately after the New Year, in early January 2021, a few days before the complete blocking of Flash content, it published a warning about the need to immediately remove Flash Player from computers and laptops, citing the fact that it is still teeming with vulnerabilities and poses a danger to the user’s PC and the information stored on it.
Bad advice
Nemesis will look for duplicates only within the social network, which means which public first steals an article from another site will be considered inside the social network. networks as the primary source.
Vk administrators recommend:
They advise me, as an author, to first publish an article on VKontakte, and then on their website. What nonsense?! On VK, my article will be indexed by search engines almost immediately. And then how can I publish it here if, according to Yandex and Google, it will be considered a copy-paste from social media. networks?!!
This phrase completely shocked me:
In my opinion, they cynically recommend that administrators steal faster
Tell me, how can some community publish your before you if it is YOURS ? Where will they get it? )) That's right, on your personal websites, outside the social network. Then this phrase of theirs seems logical
And I, as an author, don’t even have the opportunity to complain about stolen content. After all, I won’t be able to provide a link to the original if the original is not on VK, but on my personal website.
In general, I have no words.
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The same thing that regulates your relationship with the “administration” - VKontakte LLC (TIN 7842349892) and is the legal basis for the functioning of the social network and its interaction with users.
0. So, does this agreement work even without my signature, sealed with blood from my left little finger?
In short - yes
The specified document is a public offer
, i.e.
is a proposal containing all the essential terms of the contract, from which the will of the person making the proposal ( administration
) is seen to conclude an agreement on the terms specified in the proposal with anyone who responds (
user
).
Acceptance of the offer is the registration of the user on the VKontakte network.
From the moment you registered on this network, there was complete and unconditional acceptance
You the terms of the Rules in accordance with Art. 438 Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
Those. Once you have registered on the social network site, it means the agreement is already working for you.
“Content”, according to clause 7.1.1 of the agreement, means “all objects posted on the Site, including design elements, text, graphics, illustrations, videos, scripts, programs, music, sounds and other objects and their selections.”
That is, the concept of “content” includes any objects of copyright (and related) rights that are posted on a social network site.
