On iCloud public relay, go to settings and select “use country and time zone” instead of “use general location.”

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.