Facebook Messenger – How to Disable Chat Availability

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How do I disable Facebook chat availability? My chat is offline and I am using Windows 7 with Firefox. When I login with my other account through my mobile Facebook and open a chat conversation I see the account that I use on my computer is active "just now" whenever I move the mouse or refresh the page.

How do I disable that? Is there some specific heartbeat message that is possible to be blocked through AdBlock Plus or something?

Best Answer

Okay I have found the solution to block this status.

Basically Facebook uses a timer and so it will send a heartbeat message to their servers with the idle time every x minutes.

Here is an example of such web request:

https://1-edge-chat.facebook.com/pull?channel=userid&seq=0&partition=-2&clientid=18ae8ecc&cb=ie3k&idle=117&qp=y&cap=8&msgs_recv=0&uid=userid&viewer_uid=userid&msgr_region=FRC&state=offline

If you read that link you'll see that &idle=117 is the total seconds the account has been idle for. The state=offline stands for whether the chat is active or offline

Note that I have replaced my userid which is a number of 15 digits.

So to disable this just add the following rule in your AdBlock filters:

https://*-edge-chat.facebook.com

One drawback of this method is that you will not receive messages in real time. You must refresh the page to get the messages.

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