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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.
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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…
Was the nature of deletion explicitly defined as "deleted records are removed from all databases, data warehouses included"? They technically wouldn't be lying if they only deleted the record from application systems, but retained it in historical data by simply setting a bit flag (eg "IsDeleted") to 1. The question about what motive they have comes down to whether or not the types of posts a person deletes indicate…
FTFY
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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…
> Mark Zuckerberg testified in-front of congress and stated they do I just want to point out that "testified in-front of Congress" seems to have no relation to the truth of any statement. I don't recall the last time (if ever) there have been legal ramifications for lying in front of Congress. Zuckerberg also testified that shadow profiles don't exist and that users can always remove their personal information from F…
It's one of the reasons Cohen is in prison, isn't it?
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.
The eerie part? It used to show faded thumbnails of my photos that I had deleted more than a year ago in Photos section when prompting me to add my pics.
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The corpus of all of your posts are valuable for statistical analysis for ML models, sentiment analysis, and the like.
Isn’t that all to sell you ads?
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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…
>>> They "trust me" >>> Dumb fucks https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
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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 makes money from your data by showing you ads. If you stop using facebook, you stop generating any revenue and your data becomes a liability, not an asset. This part at least is incorrect. Your data will always be an asset, and FB makes money not just by showing you ads but by selling your data.
And they obviously give away some data for free, especially pertaining to users who click through OAuth consent screens as in the Cambridge Analytica case: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api
What are some examples of transactions where they exchanged data for money?
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>>> They "trust me" >>> Dumb fucks https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
You'll no doubt soon be scolded for mentioning that quote, but it will continue to be relevant for as long as Zuckerberg's actions continue display that mentality. We'll soon have somebody telling us he said that years ago and people change, but the only thing that changed with Zuck is he became a bit more diplomatic and guarded with his language. Actions speak louder than words and Zuckerberg's actions speak clearly…
Honestly the vibe's still there if you pay him/fb enough attention. I'm working on extracting myself completely from them (Still got a few group messages on upcoming events to clear)
I wrote a similar tool in Node a while back that can delete by year and category: https://github.com/spieglt/fb-delete And one to download all "Photos of you", which Facebook doesn't include when downloading your data: https://github.com/spieglt/fb-photos
https://github.com/Jaruzel/DeleteFacebookActivity
It works very well, but needs Windows.
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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 makes money from your data by showing you ads. If you stop using facebook, you stop generating any revenue and your data becomes a liability, not an asset. This part at least is incorrect. Your data will always be an asset, and FB makes money not just by showing you ads but by selling your data.