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by Akuehne 59 days ago
Two things. One, surely I'm not the only one who knew this data was being stored? Two, calling it a "leak" feels like a stretch when the data was publicly accessible by design from the start.

Yes, some users probably didn't realize their edits to public pages were saved publicly, and that's a legitimate UX complaint. But some of the responsibility has to sit with the user. Otherwise we'd be running daily headlines about Meta "leaking" user data to every advertiser with a checkbook.