The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesn’t Do Anything at All
Mar 28, 2018•8 min
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Episode description
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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