How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch
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
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.
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.
Why? META/Zuck is becoming more and more based by the day.
Virtue signaling 😁
Nah, Facebook and Instagram are the worst. Facebook is some ad riddled, AI slop, filled late stage capitalism hellscape. Worth not using just for mental health.
I quit all social media except for Lemmy, and I have to say it's been great. Especially getting off of Twitter.
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
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.
Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c
Didn't work; deleted my account but Facebook still exists. Bad guide 0/10
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.
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
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
Pffft! This is soooo 2015.
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?
Its deleted by now. However since you didnt request your data deleted complying with EU and California laws, its still very much there.
Do it! Delete it.
Where's the article on how to profit off of racist idiots on Facebook?
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.
How to "delete" them? Words really have no meaning anymore.
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?"
I did a year ago over their censorship. I don’t miss it.
Become a master hacker who can access their servers? Probably super illegal, though.
fuck!
i made a filter with words "zuckerberg" and "meta" but not "facebook"
Is this @technology?
Is the process different from it was in 2015?
Now you must sacrifice your first born.
If you’re still on those platforms, why would less censorship be the hill to die on?
Its less censorship AND an allowance of actual hate speech.
Anyone that still has these accounts hasn’t been paying attention the last few years and is part of the problem. I doubt many CURRENT Fb, Ig, Threads users will change their habits.
Dumb fucks
For those who need the context.
Oh hey, good reminder. The one upside to the fact that my FB account continually revived itself while I was using my Quest 2 is that now I can delete my account (for the last time, I hope) as part of a widespread protest instead of a one-off annoyance.
I deleted mine many years ago, 10/10 would recommend!
