Re: [tlug] Ubuntu Facebook popups

[Raymond Wan <rwan.kyoto@example.com>]

Hi Jim,


On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:00 AM Jim Breen <jimbreen@example.com> wrote:
> A couple of days ago I started getting popup Facebook notifications
> on my Ubuntu 16.04 system. They appear briefly in the corner of
> the screen, and have a similar appearance to the occasional system
> popups about lost Internet connection, etc. The content is the same
> as the ones I get on my Android phone.
>
> Does anyone know what is generating them? There's no FB app running
> (AFAIK there isn't one), and I don't have FB running in a tab in Firefox.
> Could it be that FB has planted something in Firefox?


I don't have an Ubuntu 16.04 system to check this.  But I'm on Ubuntu
18.04 and the desktop does give me notifications, which are described
here:  https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/shell-notifications.html.en
.  And at least for me, some of the notifications on this list were
placed there without asking me first.

Do your popup notifications stop if you killed all instances of
Firefox/Chrome/etc.?  I'm just wondering whether it's possible FB
placed the notifications in your desktop and not your web browser.  (I
don't use FB, so I can't check for you.)

Ray