Gizmodo’s post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks
Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.
LOL! They’re not even pretending to be a news outlet anymore.
(Let’s see how many people miss the projecting by saying I’m missing the “joke”.)
Woosh
At the router. That is where I delete it.
Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of “you” and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.
More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don’t tell anyone your real phone number or email address.
Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg…
Don’t stop there:
sudo apt purge billionaires
Luigi isn’t a second rate character anymore.
Mario is the black sheep of the family now
Mario needs to step up
&& sudo apt autoremove
That requires an adjuster
a special adjuster that andy has left at the office…
Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c
You need to block all their domains/IP ranges too otherwise they’re still profiting from profiling you across apps and websites.
Or install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ for the less tech savvy / lazy
That feels like the opposite of deleting your account or blocking them
Unfortunately, unscrupulous companies can build shadow profiles that bypass cookie and storage based isolation techniques like this.
Your browser gives off a lot of information. See here for some of the information they can use: https://amiunique.org
You’re best off blocking things with uBlock Origin vs something that just isolates.
Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it
Has he contacted you yet to schedule a time to suck it?
Sucky sucky
at least it was. my family had posted photos and tagged me in them. At that point I hadn’t had a FB for almost a decade. this was years ago now, but I doubt they changed it.
I deleted my account back in 2013. One thing I didn’t really think about was that someone else could spin up an account and pretend to be you after you leave. When I found out that someone did this I don’t think I did anything about it, I just looked at the account, cringed, and closed the window and never went back.
I don’t think that most of the lemmy crowd needs this info to beginn with…
But we may have friends and family members asking about it
And surely we would be happy to help if asked.
Unfortunately, I’m keeping mine to make a pipeline from there to actual content on Mastodon or BlueSky. But I basically put a URL in my bio and push a photo once a week.
Remember to hit the gym and lawyer up next.
No, you hit the LAWYER and gym up.
If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.
But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.
I only use it for messenger. And only then because it still has chat bubbles. There are many better messengers. But they don’t have chat bubbles that draw over other apps.
I haven’t posted on FB in years.
On Android, all messaging apps have bubbles.
Signal has chat bubbles
Is it good to know that there ís still person in this world doesn’t rely much more on social media even though that is the biggest mainstream in this world.
