Recently, Facebook has been asking me if I am in this city, or that
town, or another town, whenever I log on. And it's always wrong.
I checked Settings in Facebook, and it says that location detection is
only available via the 'app', which I don't use. In theory, if it is not available, it should not be enabled, but this is is Facebook.

My Ubuntu 22.04 has location services disabled.

Does anybody have any idea what is happening, and how can I stop it? It
only comes up with this on the first, and only, time I log in on a day,
so it is reacting to me, and presumably not anybody else.

I will ask Facebook, but I have little faith in getting any help from
them.

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Davey.

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On 22/12/2024 at 11:05, Davey wrote:

Recently, Facebook has been asking me if I am in this city, or that
town, or another town, whenever I log on. And it's always wrong.
I checked Settings in Facebook, and it says that location detection is
only available via the 'app', which I don't use. In theory, if it is not available, it should not be enabled, but this is is Facebook.

My Ubuntu 22.04 has location services disabled.

Does anybody have any idea what is happening, and how can I stop it? It
only comes up with this on the first, and only, time I log in on a day,
so it is reacting to me, and presumably not anybody else.

I will ask Facebook, but I have little faith in getting any help from
them.

It's using geolocation from your IP address, probably. See:
whatismyip.com or similar.


--
Chris Elvidge, England
I WILL NOT MOCK MRS. DUMBFACE

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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:47:52 +0000
Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:

Davey wrote:

Facebook has been asking me if I am in this city, or that
town, or another town, whenever I log on. And it's always wrong.

I don't use facebook, but other services "guess" where I am, and
they're often inaccurate, I like that.

I only correct them if there's a reason for them to know my address.

Indeed. I have concluded that this is not Facebook identifying some spoofing/phishing attempt, but more likely making a bad guess at where
I am, as you say you get.

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Davey.

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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:37:10 +0000
Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> wrote:

On 22/12/2024 at 11:05, Davey wrote:

Recently, Facebook has been asking me if I am in this city, or that
town, or another town, whenever I log on. And it's always wrong.
I checked Settings in Facebook, and it says that location detection
is only available via the 'app', which I don't use. In theory, if
it is not available, it should not be enabled, but this is is
Facebook.

My Ubuntu 22.04 has location services disabled.

Does anybody have any idea what is happening, and how can I stop
it? It only comes up with this on the first, and only, time I log
in on a day, so it is reacting to me, and presumably not anybody
else.

I will ask Facebook, but I have little faith in getting any help
from them.

It's using geolocation from your IP address, probably. See:
whatismyip.com or similar.

The problem with that that is that my IP Address is identified,
correctly, as that of my ISP, Zen, in Rochdale. Usually, Facebook
thinks I'm somewhere in or near Oxford or Pinner. Never Rochdale. Never
where I actually am, either.
Speedtest.net thinks I am in London, which is closer.

But thanks for the reply.

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Davey.

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Davey wrote:

Facebook has been asking me if I am in this city, or that
town, or another town, whenever I log on. And it's always wrong.

I don't use facebook, but other services "guess" where I am, and they're
often inaccurate, I like that.

I only correct them if there's a reason for them to know my address.

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On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 15:24:08 +0000
Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> wrote:

On 22/12/2024 11:05, Davey wrote:

Does anybody have any idea what is happening, and how can I stop
it?

It sounds like Facebook is trying to get you to tell it where you are
because it can't get the information via location services because
you've turned them off.

The best way to stop it is not to Facebook (or any of Meta's other
means of monetizing the user).

I use Facebook for two purposes:
1. To find old, lost contacts. It still works for that.
2. To read some news and comments from an old friend, who makes posts
most days and also send out some very good cartoons.

So my use is minimal, but I do not intend to stop using it. I have never
paid meta anything.

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Davey.

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On 22/12/2024 11:05, Davey wrote:

Does anybody have any idea what is happening, and how can I stop it?

It sounds like Facebook is trying to get you to tell it where you are
because it can't get the information via location services because
you've turned them off.

The best way to stop it is not to Facebook (or any of Meta's other means
of monetizing the user).

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Cheers,
Daniel.

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