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DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by xs83 »

saddlerustle wrote: post #109
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

I don't trust the "delete" button to scrub it from FB's database. I'd be slightly more confident ( slightly ) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however. In which case, I think the more effective script would be one that goes through all of your FB posts and scrambles them, or replaces the text with gibberish.

Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…

Facebook don't need to keep your past posts, their algorithms have already run the data. The real question is whether you can reset the "personas" they assign to you....

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

#112

Post by ngcc_hk »

xs83 wrote: post #111
saddlerustle wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…

Facebook don't need to keep your past posts, their algorithms have already run the data. The real question is whether you can reset the "personas" they assign to you....

Agree. If it is deep learning do not know any way to get from weights back to data.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

#113

Post by headsoup »

saddlerustle wrote: post #109
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

I don't trust the "delete" button to scrub it from FB's database. I'd be slightly more confident ( slightly ) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however. In which case, I think the more effective script would be one that goes through all of your FB posts and scrambles them, or replaces the text with gibberish.

Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…

It's perhaps likely that Facebook doesn't still hold the data, but a 'partner' keeps it for marketing/research purposes...

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by idlewords »

headsoup wrote: post #113
saddlerustle wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lots of people in this thread are claiming that it doesn't based on gut feeling, but consider: - Facebook publicly claims it does [1] - Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do [2] - Multiple government regulators have specifically checked that it does in their privacy audits. [3] They might be lying and actively conspiring to not delete it, but they'd have to have a very good reason to take…

It's perhaps likely that Facebook doesn't still hold the data, but a 'partner' keeps it for marketing/research purposes...

Facebook has no incentive to provide access to third parties. This data is their source of revenue; they sell services off of it.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by 40four »

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #6

I don't trust the "delete" button to scrub it from FB's database. I'd be slightly more confident ( slightly ) that editing the post might cause the core data in the db to be updated, however. In which case, I think the more effective script would be one that goes through all of your FB posts and scrambles them, or replaces the text with gibberish.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's not being scrubbed from FB database, but that's not the author's goal.

The README states the intent is to clean up publicly facing content. It's meant to tidy up internet presence to the general viewing public, not escape the grip of FB's data vacume.

I'm a big fan a Selenium, and this is great usage of it! Scripting a boring, repetitive browser task, that would take a large amount of time & effort to do manually.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by blunte »

HunOL wrote: post #62
nkingsy wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I’m banned will they stop sending me email finally?

No. Once they banned my account (one of the accounts), but still were sending some mails.

This is true. And you can’t stop it.

Re: DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

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Post by goodfight »

ngcc_hk wrote: post #112
xs83 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook don't need to keep your past posts, their algorithms have already run the data. The real question is whether you can reset the "personas" they assign to you....

Agree. If it is deep learning do not know any way to get from weights back to data.

There is some research being done on this topic. At least in ways to sign models so that you can test copyright based on certain input keys.
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