I don't want to be shown as Available (green) in Hangouts even if I am online, or chatting with someone. I don't people to know when I am available. Is it possible to always show myself as if I were offline (white)?
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1Possible duplicate of How can you change your status in Google Hangouts from Gmail? – serenesat Sep 14 '17 at 6:58
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1The referenced question is too outdated - even if you attempt to follow the 2 answers there, gmail settings no longer give you the option to revert to a previous chat version. – mdoc-2011 Feb 9 '18 at 3:10
Disabling this setting does it:
You can find it by clicking on the dropdown next to your username on the hangouts window.
