Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook
7 NEW, 7
Revealed just weeks after Instagram’s co-founders left the company
By Jon Porter@JonPorty Oct 5, 2018, 6:48am EDTSHARE
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Instagram is currently testing a feature that would allow it to share your location data with Facebook, even when you’re not using the app, reports app researcher Jane Manchun Wong (via TechCrunch). The option, which Wong notes is being tested as a setting you have to opt-in to, allows Facebook products to “build and use a history of precise locations” which the company says “helps you explore what’s around you, get more relevant ads and helps improve Facebook.” When activated, the service will report your location “even if you leave the app.”
The discovery of the feature comes just weeks after Instagram’s co-founders resigned from the company, reportedly as a result of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s meddling in the service. Examples of this meddling include removing Instagram’s attribution from posts re-shared to Facebook, and badged notifications inside Instagram that encouraged people to open the Facebook app. With the two men who were deeply involved in the day-to-day running of Instagram now gone, such intrusions are expected to increase.
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Jane Manchun Wong@wongmjane
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1047918370698354689
Instagram, as a "Facebook Product", is testing Facebook Location History in their app.
It allows tracking the history of precise locations from your device, now through instagram app too
previously: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1046978715610206209 …
Jane Manchun Wong@wongmjane
Facebook is testing Map view in Nearby Friends
7 NEW, 7
Revealed just weeks after Instagram’s co-founders left the company
By Jon Porter@JonPorty Oct 5, 2018, 6:48am EDTSHARE
Instagram is currently testing a feature that would allow it to share your location data with Facebook, even when you’re not using the app, reports app researcher Jane Manchun Wong (via TechCrunch). The option, which Wong notes is being tested as a setting you have to opt-in to, allows Facebook products to “build and use a history of precise locations” which the company says “helps you explore what’s around you, get more relevant ads and helps improve Facebook.” When activated, the service will report your location “even if you leave the app.”
The discovery of the feature comes just weeks after Instagram’s co-founders resigned from the company, reportedly as a result of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s meddling in the service. Examples of this meddling include removing Instagram’s attribution from posts re-shared to Facebook, and badged notifications inside Instagram that encouraged people to open the Facebook app. With the two men who were deeply involved in the day-to-day running of Instagram now gone, such intrusions are expected to increase.
View image on Twitter
Jane Manchun Wong@wongmjane
https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1047918370698354689
Instagram, as a "Facebook Product", is testing Facebook Location History in their app.
It allows tracking the history of precise locations from your device, now through instagram app too
previously: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1046978715610206209 …
Jane Manchun Wong@wongmjane
Facebook is testing Map view in Nearby Friends
Been Facebook'less for two years now and fitting to get rid of IG too, yet I need my art photos and memes
. IG gotta force my hand with that shyt
