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How to stop people from knowing you've read a message

“Yeah, I didn’t get a chance to read it. Seriously”

SOMETIMES YOU JUST want to read a message without people seeing it, whether it’s because you don’t have time to reply straight away or want to leave it till later.

In the case of instant messaging, the majority of services out there allow you to turn off the read receipts  so you don’t see them (or blue ticks) when you look at a message. Of course, you don’t have to do this, but in case you need it, you can hide it for some of the more popular services.

iMessage

If you’ have an iPhone, then you’ve definitely used this at some point among your other iOS friends.

To turn it off, go into Settings > Messages  and you will see the option Send Read Receipts. Switch it off to prevent read receipts from appearing on your end.

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WhatsApp

WhatsApp introduced a feature allowing you to turn off receipts recently and it’s easy to find. Go into Settings > Account > Privacy and you will see the read receipts option at the bottom.

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Viber

Another easy one to find. Similar to WhatsApp, go into Settings > Privacy and you will see ‘Send Seen Status’.

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Facebook Messenger

There’s no way to disable message receipts in the app itself (or the new web app that launched recently) but for the desktop version, you can install plugins like FBUnseen (Chrome and Firefox) or Unseenly (Chrome and Firefox) to prevent these notifications.

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:40 AM

    I believe that Greater Manchester has a similar population to Ireland, and is represented (completely adequately) by, er, 27 MPs! Fewer TDs would surely mean money saved? And fewer NIMBY, or even IMBY, decisions?

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    Mute donal O'brien
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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:46 AM

    Your belief is incorrect.
    I remember George Hook used to use the ‘greater Manchester’ line nearly every day to snear at our country so I had to do my own research as I suspected he was incorrect.
    The statistics confirm that the population of our country is more than twice the population of GM.

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    Mute David Corrigan
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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:53 AM

    @donal O’brien: So all we need is 54 TD’s then. Thanks for clarifying that.

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:59 AM

    @David Corrigan: they have a much stronger local government setup with more councillors and officials. And the UK has parliaments in Scotland Wales and NI

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:59 AM

    @: That is assuming the UK is the ideal standard of political representation…(it very much is not)

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    Mute David Corrigan
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:16 AM

    @donal O’brien: We definitely don’t get good output from our representatives. The majority of them contribute nothing and are only heard at election times.

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    Mute Michael O'Neill
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    Aug 30th 2023, 11:14 AM

    @: Yeah. Lets copy what they do in the UK. They’re a great role model :)

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    Mute Barry Lee
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:01 AM

    Referendum needed to reduce the amount of tds to max 100. Gravy train needs to stop

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    Mute Paul Maguire
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:12 AM

    We need more GPs in the communities more doctors and nurses in our hospitals and more Guards on our streets to deal with the increase in population…we do not need more TDs and spending more money on politicians

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:41 AM

    What about the rest of the country or is it only Dublin that matters come general election time?

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:51 AM

    @Douglaslad: I’m sure they are current writing the articles about the new Laois, Offally and Wicklow- Wexford constituencies and the other changes

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    Mute ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere
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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:57 AM

    @Douglaslad: Yes.

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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:17 AM

    @donal O’brien: Tell me where is there any mention of Cork which happens to be the second most populated county in the country or other Munster and Connaught counties for that matter this is typical carry on of the Dublin centric Journal.ie.

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:58 AM

    That’ll probably save Leo his seat.

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    Mute andy masterson
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:32 AM

    @ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: By changing from a 5 seat to a 3 seat. Explain your logic there

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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:53 AM

    @andy masterson: The old constituency now has 6 seats.

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    Mute Conrad Stapletwin
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:23 AM

    so, Donabate, Rush, Lusk, Skerries etc. will all reside in the Dublin Fingal West constituency while actually being located further East than Swords, Balgriffin etc. which will be in Dublin Fingal East constituency.

    Well done, lads.

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    Mute Jen McC
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:19 PM

    @Conrad Stapletwin: my same thought. Why not Fingal South and Fingal North? I live in Rush and can see the sea from my road, I could barely be more East.

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    Aug 30th 2023, 9:55 AM

    Will D6W post code be gone now?

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    Mute john dowling
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:55 AM

    Referendum on increasing the numbers per TD badly needed! Did the commission take into account the number of houses planned. for in the given constituencies?

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    Mute Conrad Stapletwin
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    Aug 30th 2023, 10:21 AM

    so, Donabate, Rush, Lusk, Skerries etc. will all reside in the Dublin Fingal West constituency while actually being located further East than Swords, Balgriffin etc. which now reside in the Dublin Fingal East constituency.

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    Mute Mary Conneely
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    Aug 30th 2023, 11:37 AM

    @Conrad Stapletwin: where did you see that?

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    Mute Jen McC
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    Aug 30th 2023, 7:33 PM

    @Mary Conneely: in the article.

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