"recent privacy issues"... all facebook companies were surveillance companies from inception. supporting any of them is supporting a surveillance capitalism behemoth for now 20+ years.

Contacted a bunch of people to tell them to turn this off. None of them knew. Hope they get the absolute fuck sued out of them

I know I'm preaching to the choir here...

Privacy isn't something that corporations or the government gives to you. It's something that you have to create and protect for yourself.

Installing a meta app on your phone comes with an agreement (which you read, right?) where you give up all of the privacy of your phone in exchange for apps that make you feel bad about your income, life and relationships while also being misinformed and angry about current events. It's such a terrible deal where you lose everything in order to send pictures to your friends slightly more efficiently (Signal Stories work just as well but are end to end encrypted)

It's like letting a narcissist live with you who constantly berates, insults and lies to you in exchange for them occasionally telling you how your friends random people that you really don't care about are doing.

I don't use Instagram, so I'm out of the loop. What's going on? As far as I remember people were always allowed to mark thier location in post.

Shocked I tell ya. /s

Why are people giving any Meta app Location Permissions? ..or even installing that shit to begin with?

There was a time Facebook chat would share precise locations with every message by default. None of the people who sent me their location along with a message knew they were doing that when I told them.

Isn't this the same thing Snapchat did years ago?

What are these poor instagram users supposed to do? NOT using Instagram?? That's insane

People still use instagram, that's bad.

I'm just shocked that people are still shocked...

This has been a WhatsApp thing for ages...

Didn't Snapchat have this for ages? I don't get what's so surprising

If they wanted to add some feature where you can see where people were located on a city scale then whatever, although I still don't see the point. But taking it down to the literal building that the person is in is fucking bonkers.

But not "too sick", as they conveniently keep using the service because having your location shared is just not inconvenience enough, I guess.