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Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by zokier »

bmelton wrote: post #26

I've tried (and failed) to delete my Facebook a couple times in the past, so this most recent go, when I quit using Facebook, I just quit using Facebook -- I uninstalled the apps from my phone, and mapped 'facebook.com' to localhost in my /etc/hosts files. The result was... amusing. Facebook kept emailing me the "Hey, did you see what so and so posted?" emails, knowing full well that I didn't see them. But then, afte…

I'm not sure why the emails are a big deal; they are pretty much trivial to filter out. Marking them as spam is probably not helpful in the bigger picture. I just let them accumulate in their own folder in gmail, they don't hurt anyone there.

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Post by jxramos »

dahart wrote: post #64
imustbeevil wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is such a weird thing to think. You can turn off all notifications and they'll never contact you, ever. I stopped using Facebook 6 years ago and haven't gotten a single email / sms from them since then, because I used the settings properly. Yeah, if you just ghost them and never click "update your email settings" at the bottom of every email they send, they'll keep sending them.

> This is such a weird thing to think It's weird to expect that deleting your account will result in the account being deleted and notifications for the account you no longer have to go away? It's nice to know there's a workaround for when account deletion isn't respected, but you could skip the incredulity, you shouldn't have to go through your settings, and your settings shouldn't affect your notifications, if you…

I wonder if a strategy of coopting a group of friends to flag your messages that have some cryptic message everyone claims is inappropriate would trigger a full deletion like his obscene messages strategy.

Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by [deleted] »

dwringer wrote: post #45
AndrewStephens wrote: post #15

I wrote this several years ago - it is still true: https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne... You do not have a Facebook page. You never did. Facebook has a page on you.

At the time Facebook was created, there was a lot of talk about how private organizations already had such dossiers on the general public. Facebook is more like the "tip of the iceberg". At least it gives users some control over how they are presented (though less and less every day as they filter timelines and use our names to endorse their ads)

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Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by ballenf »

dorfsmay wrote: post #110

Even if you've never used Facebook, you have a "shadow" account, it is a well known fact. Every time somebody you know upload their contacts into FB, they link them with your shadow account, or create it if not already there, as a strong possible match. I have started to use Facebook recently as I needed an account for work so decided to explore a bit, my biggest problem with Facebook is that your "feed" is made up o…

FB should keep a hash of details on people who have deleted their profile and opted out of tracking in order to prevent re-creating shadow profiles.

Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by [deleted] »

dwringer wrote: post #45
AndrewStephens wrote: post #15

I wrote this several years ago - it is still true: https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne... You do not have a Facebook page. You never did. Facebook has a page on you.

At the time Facebook was created, there was a lot of talk about how private organizations already had such dossiers on the general public. Facebook is more like the "tip of the iceberg". At least it gives users some control over how they are presented (though less and less every day as they filter timelines and use our names to endorse their ads)

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Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by doc_gunthrop »

trishmapow2 wrote: post #19

https://haveibeenpwned.com Make sure that you don't have any insecure accounts or reuse passwords that have been exposed through breaches.

For the site https://haveibeenpwned.com, does anybody happen to know if there is a quick and simple way to check email addresses that are one's regular email address with "+" and the service name appended?

For example, given the email address generic@genericmail.com, if I were to sign up for facebook with generic+facebook@genericmail.com, does the HIBP site provide a simplified method for checking all variations?

Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by faceboksukha »

I deleted my account long time ago from facebook.

Liars, cheaters, fake news and privacy violations you will found only from facebook.

I really questioning whole company morals

Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by [deleted] »

dwringer wrote: post #45
AndrewStephens wrote: post #15

I wrote this several years ago - it is still true: https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne... You do not have a Facebook page. You never did. Facebook has a page on you.

At the time Facebook was created, there was a lot of talk about how private organizations already had such dossiers on the general public. Facebook is more like the "tip of the iceberg". At least it gives users some control over how they are presented (though less and less every day as they filter timelines and use our names to endorse their ads)

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Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by [deleted] »

dwringer wrote: post #45
AndrewStephens wrote: post #15

I wrote this several years ago - it is still true: https://sheep.horse/2013/10/the_seven_realities_of_social_ne... You do not have a Facebook page. You never did. Facebook has a page on you.

At the time Facebook was created, there was a lot of talk about how private organizations already had such dossiers on the general public. Facebook is more like the "tip of the iceberg". At least it gives users some control over how they are presented (though less and less every day as they filter timelines and use our names to endorse their ads)

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Re: Facebook Lies

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Post by proofofstake »

I am in this Kafka-esque situation where I try to get an account deleted that is not even mine. I don't have and want a Facebook account, but Facebook does not agree.

I few years back I started receiving mail for an account that I never created. The name is not close to mine, but a silly sexual pun.

I have mailed security and account support multiple times, asking for the account to be deleted, or decoupled from my email address, because I keep getting login attempt notifications and even friend suggestions.

Just checking, and coincidentally the very last email is one for the Facebook account. "Hey, it seems you are having trouble logging in! Click here to sign in.". Yes, Facebook, someone, for whatever reason, is trying to log in to a Facebook account for 4 years now, and won't take no for an answer... "If this wasn't you, please let us know by clicking here". Ok, Facebook, this is not me, and it was not me the last 10 times I clicked that button.

(I now assume, that this account is somehow being used to mine my social connections. Something like a public ghost account.)

Timeline:

2013: Hi Fuck, you got more friends on Facebook than you realize! List of 6 people I know IRL.

2013: Hi Fuck, you have 1 friendship request. Log in to accept.

2013: Do you know [3 people I know]?

2013: Hi Fuck, Fuck placed something on your timeline and is waiting to see it.

2013: Do you know [9 people I know]?

2014: We've updated our Terms of Service

2015: Someone asked a new password for your account.

2017: Hey Fuck, it seems you are having trouble logging in.

2017: Hey Fuck, it seems someone tried logging into your account from a new location.

2017: Hey Fuck, we received your request to reset your account password. XXXXX is your reset code.

2017: Fuck, go back to Facebook in just one click.

2017: Hey Fuck, it seems you are having trouble logging in.

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