Facebook Removes Username Squatting Protection

Yesterday I wrote a post about how to claim a username that someone else has already taken. Unfortunately, the form that we linked to has since been removed and the help page states that Facebook has “a strict no transferability policy.” While the company states that this should prevent squatting from taking place, there are still a few occurrences of this taking place. Unfortunately for those users, there’s no system for reporting usernames being stolen.

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