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Love this script! I'm trying to use it to wipe 10 years of Facebook dumbness. It can handle about a month's worth of posts before it crashes though. Is there any try/catch/repeat loops you could add to resolve this? Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"layerConfirm"} Or... is there a Python equivalent of "nodemon" I could run it behind? Thanks for the great work! I wa…
I believe it is a race condition which wasn't handled in the most elegant way.
Fantastic! Now the same for Firefox please.
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
Seeing as we're sharing, here's my (previously posted to HN) effort: https://github.com/Jaruzel/DeleteFacebookActivity It works very well, but needs Windows.
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…
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Testifying in Congress absolutely carries legal ramifications. It's just pretty hard to pin it so I agree with the "difficult" sentiment. https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/is-zuckerberg-under-oath-c... John M Poindexter was one who was convicted of lying to Congress: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Poindexter#U.S._executive...
I agree that it is technically illegal, but if the most recent example of a conviction (that you can think of) was almost 30 years ago that tells you that it's effectively unenforced.
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Maybe not lie per se but they might have multiple data stores, one for the "social media" side of things and an archive for machine learning, one for targeted ads, etc. So they could legitimately say "we delete your data [from the perspective of social media]" while still having an archive for their other business units. It wouldn't be the first time Facebook (nor any other business that profits from people's data) h…
Under GDPR, you cannot tell users you deleted data if it's still available for other purposes (except for legal requirements like invoices). Given FB's size and the small amount of people deleting data, I doubt Facebook would take the risk to keep a few more datasets.
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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....
Instead of deleting posts or garbling them, one could replace them and add new posts that portray a false persona.
I recently tried to script clearing out my twitter linkes. (Some of which date back to before But Twitter now says I have about 4k likes, but only displays the ones since I tried to run my script.
Occasionally, a weeks or months later older ones resurface, but if I try to unlike them in bulk they disappear again to return at a random interval.
Love this script! I'm trying to use it to wipe 10 years of Facebook dumbness. It can handle about a month's worth of posts before it crashes though. Is there any try/catch/repeat loops you could add to resolve this? Message: no such element: Unable to locate element: {"method":"class name","selector":"layerConfirm"} Or... is there a Python equivalent of "nodemon" I could run it behind? Thanks for the great work! I wa…
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