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swamp-agr

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    Comment #46950527

    https://nix-ci.com/

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    Comment #44776437

    Anti-spam bot plugin for messengers: - MVP version for Telegram (since spamming is a part of their business model, it feels natural to start with it) - More precisely, data pipelin…

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    Comment #38786584

    Mozilla Firefox + NoScript + DNT works very well for me.

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    Comment #30633757

    Just a kindly reminder about filtering out FB/Instagram/Whatsapp on your device or even home network: https://pastebin.com/FAV2f9eA

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    Comment #28776890

    Yes, it is possible that I experienced a bug at least three times (2010, 2014 and 2020), certainly. It might be the case, sure. Last email (as of today) about permanent deletion wa…

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    Comment #28772803

    From data modelling point of view it's a challenge to wipe the user data since it will affect a social graph. And there're different strategies to handle corner cases (e.g. how to …

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    Comment #28772453

    You cannot be quite sure - that someone who takes over your "garbage" account - could fake someone else (on your behalf) - with a traces on corporate servers that will lead authori…

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    Comment #28772330

    I don't know - whether they partially disable functions on purpose - or there are region-dependant backend code errors.

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    Comment #28772079

    I am in the middle of exactly that process!

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    Comment #28771635

    Disagree. - I explicitly check to avoid any "disabling". - The only intent was to permanently delete the account. - You can believe me or not and I did it really careful.

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    Comment #28771489

    The situation is quite interesting here. - Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe. - Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account". - You will ev…

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    Comment #27682118

    You can go ahead and block FB before FB blocks you. With a simple /etc/hosts update like that: https://pastebin.com/FAV2f9eA Several years without FB and its scripts anywhere. Neve…

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    Comment #21522702

    Paste content from link below to your /etc/hosts file: https://pastebin.com/raw/FAV2f9eA On Android you could prevent Facebook by blacklisting same hosts via Firefox + NoScript.

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