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Rick’s Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, August 7, 2022
Topics covered in this issue…
• Q&A: How do you disable Marketplace notifications on Facebook?
• How to delete your entire Google search history
• Scam alert: Beware the “$87 Dell Laptop” scam on Facebook
• Time-lapse video: Check out these awesome Northern Lights
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Today’s quick tech tip….
Q&A: How do you disable Marketplace notifications on Facebook?
Question from Paul: My wife buys and sells items from Facebook’s Marketplace all the time, but the notifications they send to her phone really annoy her.
She doesn’t really need the notifications because she manually checks the marketplace several times a day.
How do you turn those notifications off?
Rick’s answer: Your wife can easily disable all those annoying Marketplace notifications, Paul. Tell her to do the following:
1 – Open the Facebook app and sign into her account.
2 – Tap the profile photo on the top menu bar.
3 – Tap Settings & privacy.
4 – Tap Settings.
5 – Type the word notifications into the “Search Settings” box at the top of the screen, then select Notification settings from the list of search results.
6 – Scroll down and tap Marketplace.
7 – Toggle the “Allow notifications on Facebook” setting to Off.
That’s all there is to it. Once your wife has successfully made this settings change she will no longer receive any notifications related to Facebook marketplace.
By the way, notifications for all manner of other Facebook services, events, etc. can be disabled the same way. Just scroll through the list of notification types and disable the ones you don’t want to receive.
The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips Tech Blog…
• How to delete your entire Google search history
Did you know Google keeps a log of every search you have ever made via their search engine? Well, they do.
This post explains how to delete the search history info they have collected to date and (optionally) prevent them from collecting more in the future.
• A very dangerous recurring scam is making the rounds yet again
This one is easy to fall for, and lots of people are falling for it this very moment.
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Rick’s Daily Pick…
EchoGear in-Wall Cable Concealer Kit (#ad)
Want to mount a TV on an inside wall and conceal the cords by running them inside the wall? This kit makes it easy.
Note: A few customers reported that the hole saw included with this kit didn’t work all that well for them so they had to purchase a separate hole saw blade at their local hardware store.
They loved the rest of the kit, but do take the potentially unusable hole saw blade into account before ordering.
For what it’s worth, everything worked perfectly for me, including the hole saw. But as they say, “your mileage may vary“.
Today’s post from ‘My Daily Smile’…
Time-lapse video: Check out these awesome Northern Lights
Did I mention that they’re awesome?
Tech news that caught my eye…
• That message from ‘Twitter Support’ is almost certainly fake
• Facebook parent Meta wants you to help train its new AI-powered chatbot
• Elon Musk challenges Twitter CEO to a ‘public debate’ on fake accounts
• Fitbit will soon no longer let you transfer music from your PC
• One of the most useful Windows 11 tools is coming to Windows 10
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