Now you’re no longer “within 250 miles,” hell my phone geo IPs everywhere from Louisiana to New Jersey , which are not even “in my time zone,” but there you go.
This setting was pissing meta/Facebook off big time because they also couldn’t narrow me down to a precise geographical area, resulting in much nagging and whining about “was this you signing in from [shreveport]?” and frequent account lockouts , password resets, and endless requests to approve my logins from a device that’s already logged in before I finally said to hell with it and deleted FB a few days ago.
I figure if a privacy setting makes meta mad , then it’s .. probably … a good setting. Must really irk them trying to sell location relevant ads when my state changes every other time I unlock my screen.
It’s a combined behavior of using private browsing and refusing to install their app, thereby giving them a permanent supercookie no matter what my IP is, so if you don’t like the sound of this it [might not] affect you if you use their apps. “X” does it too, just look up “inferred identity+ twitter” on google.
I’m editing out a tall claim in the last paragraph of this for some other time when I’m less tired and have sources next time we’re on the subject.