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If the user didn't opt in to a notification, then by definition, it is unsolicited.
He probably has opted in without noticing. Quick show of hands: How reads all ToS that they agree to?
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#162If corporations are people why not file a restraining order?
You gotta work within the system, I like the idea...
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> And besides, they take nothing that you don't give them. This isn't true, at all. Facebook collects plenty of data that users and non-users don't directly give them.
You are correct, of course, although this was not so widespread at the time I wrote this piece (sometime in 2007 I think, despite what the byline claims.)
They've done it from the start.
Even 2007-era Facebook encouraged users to upload/sync their email contacts to "discover friends already using it".
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Try Fastmail. If you want to reply you can setup a sending identity with the necessary email address. You don't have to do anything ahead of time.
Sweet, will check it out, I'm not particularly attached to gsuite
They also have a neat way of doing wildcard delivery if you use them for DNS: tag@name.domain.com gets translated to name+tag@domain.com.
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Sweet, will check it out, I'm not particularly attached to gsuite
They also have a neat way of doing wildcard delivery if you use them for DNS: tag@name.domain.com gets translated to name+tag@domain.com.
This would definitely help with douchebag sites that consider "+" an invalid character
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#166I'm not trying to defend Facebook, but I used the 14-day deletion and it worked for me. Just saying that there must be more to this story than just "I did it and Facebook lied to me".
I deleted my account there 10 years ago, about a year ago I needed an account to join a memorial group for someone. Facebook somehow knew that the email address I used to sign up with, which was new, was related to my old email address and tried to link my new account to my old data which was still there. It also still knew a heck of a lot about me including suggestions for people I had just recently met. And some of…
This is most disturbing. I remember big change in facebook policy on 1.1. 2015 that would mean that deleting your account would not delete data they had on you. Up to that point their policy was that after you delete, data about you is erased (at least in europe).
I did delete the account before that date with few other people (mostly because of that policy coming).
I never tried coming back but if they still kept all the data, that is pretty substantional. One could sue facebook for that or am i missimg something?
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It is fairly easy to configure Facebook notifications the way you want them to be (for example, I want to know when someone logs into my account, but nothing else). I post on my timeline less than once a month, and receive no notifications. Not to defend Facebook, but notifications are hardly its biggest annoyance.
This is not true. They offer no fine-grained control besides dicking around with dozens of unsubscribe links over several weeks. For instance, how do you easily configure Facebook to ONLY send you emails when you're invited to an event or someone sends you a Facebook message, but NOT when your friends post random stuff?
I have to agree on the no fine-grained control. My point was that it is easy to opt out of the notifications by email in general. I'm positive that there is an option where you receive a notification when someone send you a message, but I don't think it is possible to get event invitation notifications only.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I deleted my account there 10 years ago, about a year ago I needed an account to join a memorial group for someone. Facebook somehow knew that the email address I used to sign up with, which was new, was related to my old email address and tried to link my new account to my old data which was still there. It also still knew a heck of a lot about me including suggestions for people I had just recently met. And some of…
This is most disturbing. I remember big change in facebook policy on 1.1. 2015 that would mean that deleting your account would not delete data they had on you. Up to that point their policy was that after you delete, data about you is erased (at least in europe). I did delete the account before that date with few other people (mostly because of that policy coming). I never tried coming back but if they still kept al…
Before I left I used a tool that would delete all of my posts and content and stuff like that. Cleaned up the profile as best I could. The type of data they had was more about who they thought I knew, how desperately single I am stuff like that. Given how many privacy related scandals they have had I don't think suing them is going to do anything.
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#169I expected this, so I first deleted all posts, comments, events, whatever could be deleted, unfriended everyone, replaced everything that could not be removed with random strings, including my name and profile url, and then deleted the account. Even if it gets reactivated, it will be useless. It's annoying that this has to be done. There are several other well known companies that make account deletion a stupid hassl…
This would actually be a cool product. Could call it Facebook Discombobulator.
I believe there are some browser extensions to do this.
I just wrote a few document.querySelectorAll() based loops in the console that artificially clicked the right elements in the right order with some delay.
Fun thing is that while most things are very fats on facebook, deletion is super slow. It takes like 2 seconds to complete. They must have some artificial delay somewhere just to frustrate this kind of scripting.
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#170This person deactivated their account but didn't delete it. That's all there is to it.
How is it possible this reaches so high up Hacker News? None of you have seen users (or yourselves) make similar mistakes?