This new redesign has led some, liketech news site TechCrunch, to be skeptical about Facebook’s goals.

The new direction makes it seem that Facebook has gone back on that earlier decision.

The prefs redesign also has relocated several other prefs so they are alongside related topics.

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For example, the News Feed will now be under Preferences.

Facebook claims it also has improved its configs search function to make finding certain configurations easier.

This decision was madebased on data from TTC Labs, an online data resource owned by Facebook.

Facebook redesigned settings page.

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TechCrunch theorizes the redesign is a way to push people away from those privacy configs.