Autofollow people policy in UPS 2016 not available anymore?

Just wanted to share the solution here. It seems that the behaviour of SharePoint to suddenly auto-follow was just caused by a fix in the July CU. Until then, the AD sync did not fill the Reports To field in the profile correctly, thus leaving any organizational structure blank with no team whatsoever. When we updated with the latest feature pack, the fields have seem to be updated then, allowing auto-follow to kick in for newly created MySites.

The policy to steer this behaviour is still there, for some reason it just vanished from the policy UI in the UPS. When I looked at the PowerShell objects, I had it right before my nose..

$site = Get-SPSite "CentralAdminURL"   
$serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext $site
$profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext)
$policy =  $profileManager.GetPrivacyPolicy().GetAllItems() | ? {$_.DisplayName -like "*auto-follow*"}
$policy.PrivacyPolicy = [Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PrivacyPolicy]::Disabled
$policy.Commit()

I wrote a bit more in German on this topic over there: http://spmoshpit.de/2017/12/auto-follow-von-teammitgliedern-in-sharepoint-2016-verhindern/