I recently discovered that Facebook had decided to remove my 'must approve when I am tagged' - nothing incriminating, just reminders of their abuse.

They do this all the time and it's infuriating. I recently noticed that my contact email had been updated to an @facebook.com email address and my normal @gmail.com contact email had been set to hidden.

I agree with you. But I think the majority of fb users would disagree.

Why do you say that? It seems like a generally unwanted feature. At most I'd think most fb users won't notice or care.

If it's true, a notification would have been nice. Or changing the setting back only for people who haven't specifically looked at and increased their privacy settings in the past

But then they'd be directly acknowledging the abuse, and then you could quickly change it back - however they want pictures to be tagged of you and to become public so they can be shared to everyone who they think will engage / comment on them, etc..

Disagree that they reversed a setting I put in place isn't abuse?

This is simply incorrect.

Go to privacy settings, timeline and tagging, and change "review posts friends tag you in before they appear on your timeline"

What part is incorrect? The OP claims the setting was set before and now it isn't set anymore. Telling him/her how to put it back doesn't address that....

I don't think that is what he is saying. He is saying he did this already and Facebook reverted his selection.