In case the users don’t want to share their location, they can disable the feature by tweaking the settings of their phone and disabling Messenger’s location access altogether. Facebook pushes Messenger users to enable location sharing when they install the app. The Marauder’s Map simply retrieves the latitude and longitude attached to messages from Javascript objects your browser stores to render Messenger, The Next Web reported.įacebook Messenger for mobile shares location data like this by default. If youd like to keep any of the trivia content youve added, you can download it by requesting your. The data is retrieved from messages sent with location sharing enabled. Trivia will be removed from Goodreads on Sept. The extension loads the map in Messenger’s Web interface. You can now easily know the exact location of your Facebook friends, thanks to a new creepy Google chrome extension developed by an Indian-origin researcher.Īran Khanna, a student developer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created the Chrome extension named ‘Marauder’s Map’ that grabs data from Facebook Messenger and rapidly plots your friends’ locations on a map.
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