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user-inactivated  ·  3450 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I wasn't aware that the data the FB messenger uses has accurate GPS in it.. you should probably deactivate it!

I experimented further and found it -- a little mouse-pointery button. Innocuous.

I am either rapidly approaching a point in my life where I will be able to do without facebook entirely or will I need to lean on it every day.





_refugee_  ·  3449 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Lemme tell you, messenger HATES it if you tell them you don't want notifications. I told them no because I was pissed I even was installing it, and every time I used it afterwards it asked twice if it could turn on notifications. It was very insistent.

user-inactivated  ·  3449 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is very true. I have no idea why they thought it would be a good feature to continue to question my preferences. It almost made me uninstall.

_refugee_  ·  3448 days ago  ·  link  ·  

For a while I would install it if I had a message and couldn't get near a computer for a while, and then uninstall it once I read the message. That wasn't bad.