As indicated by a few clients via social media and verified by our own Manuel Vonau in Germany, Facebook is briefly debilitating a few features for Messenger and Instagram clients who are situated in the European region. The improvement has been uncovered through in-application alarms which attribute “new rules for messaging services” as the reason for the change.
The notification doesn’t detail which features will be incapacitated however essentially guarantees that Facebook is working on bringing them back soon. In any case, as indicated by The Verge, polls aren’t accessible on both Messenger and Instagram; some different features, for example, personalized replies in the previous and stickers in the last are additionally not accessible.
These aren’t the only features to be disabled however. More are likewise supposed to be influenced however it’s hard to call attention to which ones precisely since Facebook hasn’t given any explanation. Along these lines, in the event that you live in the European Economic Area (EEA) and hit unforeseen issues, they’ll probably be because of this new turn of events.
These temporary changes are supposed to be in compliance with the national implementations of the 2002 Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (e-protection Directive), which looks to set out more explicit privacy rights for European clients on a wide range of electronic communication.
It’s not known when Facebook will restore these features however an official representative revealed to The Verge that most would return “very soon.”
