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QuantumSpecter@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch

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In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete
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    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

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      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”.)

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        Woosh

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      Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.

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    Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg…

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      That requires an adjuster

      • QuantumSpecter@lemmy.worldOP
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        a special adjuster that andy has left at the office…

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      Don’t stop there:

      sudo apt purge billionaires
      
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          Luigi isn’t a second rate character anymore.

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            Mario is the black sheep of the family now

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              Mario needs to step up

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        && sudo apt autoremove
        
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    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.

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      Thanks, I Hate It

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    Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it

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    You need to block all their domains/IP ranges too otherwise they’re still profiting from profiling you across apps and websites.

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      Or install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ for the less tech savvy / lazy

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        That feels like the opposite of deleting your account or blocking them

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        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.

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    Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c

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    Where’s the article on how to profit off of racist idiots on Facebook?

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      Make a red bubble store and sell political slogan T shirts. You can easily make a couple hundred a month just doing that. “This is Trump Country” shirts have been doing insanely well since November.

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    How to “delete” them? Words really have no meaning anymore.

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      It’s short for deleting your account, data, etc… People ommit those words for a long time now, like “Do you have Lemmy?” or “What is your Mastodon?”

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    Pffft! This is soooo 2015.

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      I turfed FB in 2015 as well (didn’t bother with the other stuff).

      But now I’m worried I deactivated it and didn’t delete… I cannot remember.

      If it’s just deactivated-- I wonder if it’s better to just leave it a greyed out graveyard, than to reactivate it just to delete. I feel reactivating would give it more information even, as I would be on a different device. It’s been dead a decade.

      What do people suggest?

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        Its deleted by now. However since you didnt request your data deleted complying with EU and California laws, its still very much there.

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    Do it! Delete it.

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    Is this @technology?

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    accountkiller.com

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