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by pasbesoin 3602 days ago
That's what I've done. Just to be clear to the grand-parent, you are still tagged. It just doesn't appear under... I've lost track of the FB terminology: On your "wall", profile, whatever.

It will still show up in your "newsfeed" of other posts -- the thing you typically browse.

It's an example of a dark or semi-dark pattern from FB. You can't really stop it, nor others' actions with respect to it. You can only limit some of its propagation and perception.

You on FB? You get tagged.

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> That's what I've done. Just to be clear to the grand-parent, you are still tagged.

That hasn't happened to me... I don't approve some photo tags my friends added and they're not on my profile at all.

The photo/post does appears in my newsfeed because well, my friend posted it. Unless I unfollow them it'll show up, right?

And worse, their auto-tagging algo is not good enough to differentiate between similar siblings. I am routinely tagged as me, in photos of my brother, on my brother's timeline.