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May 29, 2015 06:50 pm GMT

Marauder's Map, a Facebook stalker's dream, gets the axe

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Marauder's Map, a Chrome extension that showed your Facebook friends' exact physical whereabouts, was officially axed on Thursday

Harvard computer science major Aran Khanna, an incoming Facebook intern, announced he had created Marauder's Map in a Medium post earlier this week. For a time, users who downloaded the Chrome extension gained access to a map that precisely pinpointed the location of their friends on a map that popped up in Facebook on desktop. The caveat: Facebook friends also needed to be Messenger users, since the app tracks user locations by default

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