Facebook is getting rid of a privacy feature that let users limit who can find them on the social network.
Facebook Inc said on Thursday (local time) that it was removing a setting that controlled whether users could be found when people type their name into the website’s search bar.
Facebook said only a single-digit percentage of the nearly 1.2 billion people on its network were using the setting. — ‘Facebook won’t let you hide any more‘ stuff.co.nz
Yeah, I was one of them …
No surprise there.
– P
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