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    I don't think I've written these sentences correctly, if a native English speaker cares to revise them please edit. Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 13:06
  • Technically this makes it 'harder' to use those endpoints to check when you last opened/cleared it, though its entirely incidental. Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 13:43
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    Well in the context of what they're doing, an inbox with items wouldn't indicate that the user has just opened the inbox if you could set items to be read or unread. As such you can't use the state of the inbox to guess what the user is doing? As such its 'better' for privacy, but not by design Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 14:07
  • But they can now also increase, or different posts selected and unselected. Its got 'less' meaning now. Its not a replacement for reviewing and considering how to fix the issue of course but all else remaining the same,the raw count is less meaningful Commented Oct 7, 2022 at 14:12