Bug in Facebook privacy settings preview
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So, I’ve been updating my Facebook privacy settings lately, just because they seem to change every week, and decided to delete all of my ‘connections’, apart from a select few which are very important to me, and I stumbled across a bug in Facebook’s privacy settings. I should stress that it would appear that your privacy settings are respected, but the ‘preview’ feature simply isn’t showing you correct information.
I’ve set my privacy settings for my connections to friends only, and have no uncategorised ‘Likes’ (due to the bizarre Facebook decision to not be able to set privacy settings for ‘Other’ likes):
I’ve also set the privacy settings to those who can see my friends list to be friends only.
As one would expect, the profile preview doesn’t show these things, but my profile is set to be visible to search engines, and despite my privacy settings (‘Likes’ and ‘Friends’ to be ‘friends only’) and that the profile preview correctly does not show my likes, my search engine preview does. Bizarre, and almost certainly a bug.
Now, actually viewing my profile when not logged in doesn’t show that information, but with yet another bug in Facebook’s privacy settings and the inability to set privacy settings on some aspects of your profile, I’m beginning to trust Facebook less and less.