[Slansitartop]

> It's another case of people screaming to the heavens about evil megacorp. when in reality they can't be bothered to check their own settings.

Facebook's settings are often opaque and unintuitive, and some of the stuff around notifications qualifies as dark patterns. Also, as you mentioned, Facebook has a history of using selfishly-chosen defaults which are often not what a user would likely want or expect.

I'm not going to fault people for complaining about getting tricked into settings they didn't want.

[Meph504]

I won't defend their practices in most cases, changing the news feed to recent for example is far more work than it should be, and reverts randomly.

but this setting is Settings>Notifications it's not really buried.

I suppose I'm not upset at people who discovered the issue, but I am annoyed at mashable.com for making it a specifical when it shouldn't be, quoting a "a self-described technosociologist, professor at UNC" and their uninformed statements.