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We have already talked about hacking a VKontakte page (see). Attackers can find out your login and guess your password (see). And then they will be able to visit your page.

To prevent this from happening, VKontakte introduced an additional security measure - double authorization (two-factor). The meaning of this function is that after entering , you also need to indicate the secret code received via SMS or other means. Thus, the likelihood of hacking is reduced significantly. Even if attackers know your credentials, they won't have the code to log into the page.

Now I'll show you how to activate double authorization on VKontakte and set up an application for generating codes.

How to enable two-factor authentication on VKontakte?

Go to your page and go to the “Settings” section.

Open the “Security” tab. Here in the section "Login confirmation", click the “Connect” button.

A form will open - click the button in it "Start setting up".

You will be asked to re-enter the password for the page (see). Do this and click the "Confirm" button.

Receive the code on your phone and enter it in the form. Then click the "Submit Code" button.

Setting up an application for generating codes

The next step is setting up the application to generate codes. You are offered to install an application that will allow you to generate login codes, even without connecting to a cellular network.

Use Google Authenticator for iPhone and Android smartphones. AND Authenticator- for phones in Windows Phone. Install the appropriate application on your gadget.

This is what the window with the QR code looks like, and secret code in VK.

Now run installed application, and scan the specified code.

Now paste the received code from the application, and click the "Confirm" button.

The code generation application has been successfully configured!

Would you like to learn about some useful functions of the mega-popular social network VKontakte in our latitudes? Then, read about the seven hidden features of VK and use the knowledge you gain now!

Quite recently we wrote about. There, everything was solved by installing a special plugin, which automatically added the functionality we needed, among which downloading media files is only a small part of the improvements...

However, not always and not everyone has the opportunity to install something on the computer from which you access the online... And, it turns out that in most cases it is not necessary to use third-party software - the main thing is to know some secrets and be able to do them use;)

Therefore, I bring to your attention a small but useful selection of tips that will allow you to significantly diversify your stay on VKontakte :)

Changing the language

And we’ll start with perhaps the most useless, but fun function - changing the interface language of our account. Previously, in the “basement” (the very bottom of the page) of the social network there were links to quickly change the language, among which there were two funny variants of Russian: “Pre-Revolutionary” and “Soviet”.

Then Contact underwent a redesign and some of the “chips”, among which were the mentioned interface options, disappeared somewhere. But, in fact, everything remained in place, it was just moved :) Soviet and pre-revolutionary Contact can still be turned on. To do this, you need to go to “My Settings” and at the bottom of the “Language” drop-down list, the last two items will be our treasured parameters :)

Select the desired design option, click the “Apply” button and get the desired result. The only pity is that your friends will not see or appreciate your new interface, since it is visible only to you. However, in a group you can also laugh, for example, by changing the language of one of your comrades on his computer to a pre-revolutionary one, and calmly observing the reaction :).

By the way, on the same first settings tab (“General”) you can also change the address of your page like “vk.com/id_page_number” to a more readable and memorable option like “vk.com/vasya_pupkin”. To do this, just enter the desired name of your account in the “Page Address” field, just above the list of languages.

How to add symbols and underscores in messages

If the change in the interface language will be visible only to us, then now I propose to study the question of what can be done in Contact so that everyone can see it :) Specifically, I mean the possibility of formatting text in your messages. After the last redesign (around April-May), many of the text formatting functions were eliminated, but some remained...

The general concept of formatting text on VKontakte is as follows: before the letter that needs to be highlighted in a certain way, put special code, starting with characters and ending with a specific number with a colon at the end. In practice, it looks something like this (we enter the example without quotes): "͠п͠р͠и͠в͠е͠т":

In addition to the wavy overline, the following codes also work now:

• ́ - stress (placed before the letter we want to emphasize and works only once in one word);
• - non-breaking space (replaced with an empty character and allows, for example, to send an empty message);
• ¯ - overlining with a solid, straight line;
• ̅ - dotted line.

At the moment, everything is formatted, however, it is worth mentioning that VKontakte codes partially coincide with popular ALT codes. If anyone doesn’t know yet, the ALT code is a special set of numbers that are entered with numeric keypad(block of buttons with numbers on the right) while holding down the ALT key. While the button is pressed, we can enter certain numbers that will not be visible, but as soon as we release the key, a certain character will appear.

So... By experimenting with the numbers after, you can get interesting results. For example, code © will give us a copyright icon - :)

Wall posts visible only to friends

Since we are talking about messages, it is worth mentioning one far from obvious, but useful function, such as hiding information on the wall from all visitors except friends. If you try to do this during normal editing from “My Page,” then you will not succeed, since the required option is not available anywhere.

Someone may rightly note that in Settings, in the “Privacy” (second) tab, you can configure it so that only friends (or no one at all :)) can view the wall. But it will be global setting. But what if you want to hide only a single post?

It turns out that this is possible and not at all difficult. You just need to know where to look :) And you need to look in the “All entries” section! You can get into it if you click on the inscription on your page that displays the number of posts on the wall (top left above the “What’s new with you?” field). This will open a page displaying only your wall and an expanded news entry field:

Under the news entry field we will have the treasured “only for friends” checkbox. We activate it, publish the news and it will be invisible to everyone who is not on your friends list!

The only caveat is that you can no longer hide previously added news. You can only hide new posts that you publish directly on your wall, which has an address like “vk.com/wallyourID”.

How to find out who visits you most often

There are generally many different questions associated with VKontakte friends... For example, we officially cannot find out which of our friends visited our page. For this purpose, VKontakte has dozens of applications that, with varying degrees of reliability, show who allegedly visited you. However, in reality, most often such applications do not work.

It turns out that there is quite real way find out who's in lately most often came to see you, even without third party applications of dubious quality. True, it is not known what degree of reliability there is in this method, since you can only check by asking people directly whether they visited you. Although, everything coincided for me, so I’ll tell you about the method, and it’s up to you :)

So, the first thing we need to do is go to “My Settings” and at the very bottom of the page find the inscription “You can delete your page.” Click on the link in this caption and go to the page for deleting your account:

There is no need to delete anything! We are only interested in the item “No one comments on my page.” We select it and in the field with a standard answer, the system will give us the names of two people who have visited your page recently :) If you want to find out who else, besides these two, visited you, repeat the procedure and get the names of another couple of visitors. We can repeat this until we count everyone! I got 7 people in a day - it seems to be true, although who will understand their developers :).

How to delete a friend request

The last situation related to friends, which often arises among VK users, is requests to be added as friends from strangers of dubious activity :). Previously, there was a button that allowed you to directly delete any add request. Today we are offered only two options: either add or remain as subscribers...

Subscribers will not be able to write messages to you directly, but will be able to read and comment on your posts on the wall... If you do not want the person to receive information about all your new posts, then you can do the following...

We leave the person as subscribers, and then go to the “My subscribers” section (in the menu under the avatar on your page). A pop-up window will open with a list of people following you. We find the avatar of the person we just added, and in the right top corner Click on the “Block” button with a cross. Everything is ready - you won't be disturbed anymore :)

How to download music and videos

There are a whole bunch of services, plugins and full-fledged ones for downloading music and videos from Contact. However, there is a way to download media files directly without additional accessories:). To do this, we can use any browser that allows us to view the code (usually viewing the code is caused by pressing the CTRL+U key combination).

To download music, go to the “My audio recordings” section and look for the track that we want to download. For speed, copy its name and call the page code using the context menu (in Chrome this is the “View page code” item) or the combination mentioned above (works in all popular browsers). Call the search by code (CTRL+F) and paste the copied name of the desired song (if there are several of them, then scroll through the code manually):

To make the search easier, you need to know that all the links we need are in the block with id="audios list". Now we find the name of the desired song, and the link to it will be in the block above in the block with the class class="play_btn fl_l". Copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp3", create new tab, paste this link into the address bar and press Enter.

In some browsers (mostly old ones), after this manipulation, the download will start immediately, and in some, the player will appear. If you start playing, you need to call context menu and in it activate the “Save As” item. A standard save dialog will appear, in which you can select the location where the file will be downloaded and give it a normal name.

To download a video, we need to add it to “My Videos,” open it for playback and quickly press CTRL+U to access the code. Videos in Contact can be stored in two formats: .mp4 or .flv. We enter both options into the search in turn and look at the result. You should find a link like this:

As you can see, it is not stored in completely working condition. Specifically, its performance is hampered by backslashes, which appear three in front of forward slashes. We need to copy the link, starting with "http" and ending with ".mp4" or ".flv", and then paste it into the address bar and remove the extra groups of slashes. Then the algorithm is the same as for links to music: either the video will immediately start downloading to the default downloads folder, or the player will appear and we can save the video through the context menu.

The only thing worth saying is that we can download a video in this way only if it is uploaded to one of the servers of VK.com, VK.me or friendly video hosting sites, but not YouTube or RuTube. And one more thing:) For some videos there are several links - they are preceded by the codes url240, url360, url480 or url720. These numbers mean resolution, and therefore video quality;).

Status "Online from a mobile device" on a PC

For starters, here’s another simple trick :) Recently, VKontakte, in addition to the “Online” status, has also begun to display the “Online with” status. mobile device", displayed if you are surfing the network from a phone or tablet. Some comrades immediately “got the trick” and began to boast that they have cool tablets and smartphones. Naturally, they cite their status as proof :)

But the status, if necessary, can be obtained quite easily if your browser is - or similar (a new one will also do :)).

We need to go to the browser menu and find the “Tools” - “Developer Tools” item there (also called by the keyboard shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+I). Now in the panel that opens, activate the “Emulation” section and in the “Device” tab, select from the list the device that we want to emulate. I chose the Google Nexus 10 because this tablet has quite high resolution screen and with such a resolution it will be comfortable to work on a regular monitor.

Now all that remains is to click the “Emulate” button and reload the Contact page. You will be automatically transferred to the mobile version of the site, and next to your name there will be a status icon in the form of a mobile phone :) Close the "Developer Tools" panel and the last step is to switch to the full version of the site by clicking the " Full version" in the left menu below. Although, if you are satisfied mobile version, then you can leave it...

Conclusions

So our mini-excursion into the hidden capabilities of VKontakte has come to an end. In fact, there are many more secrets in VK, but it is unrealistic to know them all! And the obsolescence of certain features occurs quite rapidly. While this article was being written, for example, VKontakte returned the function for selecting a language from the site’s footer :) And the article was written in only two days...

In a word, you can’t keep track of everything, so we make the most of today what we can still use, and we’ll see what will happen tomorrow :) Fast surfing and more friends with whom you can communicate on any topic!

P.S. Permission is granted to freely copy and quote this article, provided that an open active link to the source is indicated and the authorship of Ruslan Tertyshny is preserved.

In 2014, the social network VKontakte introduced two-factor authentication. What is this? This is an additional security feature - in addition to authorization using a login and password, you must enter a code that will be sent to the phone number associated with your account. Even if an attacker has data from your page, he will not be able to get into it.

How to activate two-factor authentication?

Click “My Settings” and select the “Security” tab. Here you will see the “Login Confirmation” subsection and the inscription: “Provides reliable protection against hacking: to enter the page you must enter a one-time code received via SMS or other connected method.” Click on the “Connect” button.

A window will appear that describes some situations. For example, if two-factor authentication is enabled, then password recovery by number becomes unavailable and the administration strongly recommends linking the current address to the page email. If you are satisfied with everything, click on the “Proceed with setup” button.

Enter the password for the page.

Enter the confirmation code and click “Send code”.

The function is enabled. Place a checkmark next to “Remember current browser” so as not to enter the code on this computer every time, then click on the “Finish setup” button.

How to disable two-factor authentication?

Still in the same “Security” section, click on the “Disable login confirmation” button.

Enter the password for the page.

Forums and social media provide ample opportunities for communication. But you don’t always want to enter into dialogues and not with everyone. Often there is a desire to be invisible in a chat or to wander unnoticed through other people’s profiles. In Odnoklassniki, you can close your profile and buy invisible mode. You can become invisible on the VKontakte network absolutely free of charge.

Have you heard about the secret menu that is available in the standard application client? Then read carefully: our information will please you, and the instructions will help you “disappear” at the right moment. The best part is that to enable the stealth mode you don’t even need ROOT rights to the device (everything is already in the official application menu - in “debugging mode”).

Step-by-step instructions for enabling stealth mode:

Information from 04/28/2017 : As a result of a change in VKontakte policy, the invisible mode is no longer available. The only temporary solution is to use a third party client Kate Mobile, which allows you to partially return the Offline mode.

Note : If after typing the code (step 7) nothing happened, then you need to use the program.

Additional feature : Also, in addition to turning on the “ Invisible", in the same secret menu you can turn off advertising - find the item "