Didn’t work; deleted my account but Facebook still exists. Bad guide 0/10
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.
Thanks, I Hate It
At the router. That is where I delete it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I deleted my FB account years and years ago, and AFAIK it has never broken into my house and forced me to look at it. But of course Bonespurs takes office pretty soon so I guess nothing is certain.
Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.
I did a year ago over their censorship. I don’t miss it.
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
