Due to European privacy policies, Facebook has removed various things from Messenger and Instagram. They hope to be able to reconnect them soon.

As of December 21, the privacy regulations for electronic communications (e-Privacy) will be extended to messaging services in the European Union, such as Facebook Messenger and the company’s Instagram. This is similar to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for the protection of privacy and digital data.

According to Facebook, it is not yet clear whether the functions of the two applications will comply with the newer rules, so according to their own calculations, only temporarily, but certain devices will be removed from both applications. As a result of the change, it will not be available to European Facebook users (including Hungarians), among others.

  • search messaging conversations,
  • it will not be possible to give nicknames to your friends, so they will only be visible in their real names,
  • and you cannot, for example, start voting with chat partners.

A BBC depending on the change, it will not reach users all at once, but gradually. So you might be able to search the conversations without problems yesterday, you won’t be able to do it tomorrow.

According to the indications sent to our newsroom, the phenomenon of the disappearance of functions can already be perceived in several Hungarian users.

Facebook hopes to be able to quickly restore the program’s features that were previously removed, but how long to wait has not been announced.

The use of Messenger is changing in other respects, an official bulletin was published on Wednesday.

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