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The Facebook Privacy Setting That Doesnt Do Anything at All

Published: March 28, 2018, 7:59 a.m.

Wrangling your Facebook privacy settings\u2014fine-tuning what data friends, advertisers, and apps can access\u2014is a slog. The menus are labyrinthine, the wording obtuse. And it turns out that one of them is completely pointless. In fact, it hasn\u2019t 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.