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danicoro:

hey friends, so it looks like tumblr added a nifty (read: useless) new feature to messaging that’s opt-out. 

it looks a little something like this:

so we can now see who has been online recently, by the little green dot displayed on the userpic, if they have their Availability setting toggled on 

(which all users now seem to have, by default).

it seems able to track activity up to at least three hours (that’s the longest anyone who has this toggled has been away for), 

so i assume it would continue to track.

as i mentioned, this setting is opt-out, so you have to manually disable it.

for some, this feature will be useful, 

but i know that for someone like me, having people able to see my “online” status really bothers me, 

and i turn off the tracking for that on every website that i’m part of.

so, this sucks, and you don’t like it. 

how do you get rid of it

On Desktop

• Click the Account icon at the top right of your Dashboard

• Click on Settings

• On the Account Settings landing page, find ‘Availability’ (it’s under Security)

• Toggle ‘off

On Mobile

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these steps are iOS specific, though i assume it’s pretty similar on Android, etc. devices)

• Tap the Account icon

• Click the cog wheel to open your Account Settings

• Tap Global settings

• Tap Privacy

• Toggle ‘off’

that’s it, ur good to go. 

hope it helps, friends!

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