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The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesn’t Do Anything at All

The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesn’t Do Anything at All

The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesn’t Do Anything at All

Security, Spoken · SpokenLayer

March 28, 20188m 9s

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Show Notes

Wrangling your Facebook privacy settings—fine-tuning what data friends, advertisers, and apps can access—is a slog. The menus are labyrinthine, the wording obtuse. And it turns out that one of them is completely pointless. In fact, it hasn’t worked in years. To be clear: This is not a case of Facebook sneaking one past you, at least not the way you might think.

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