Why is Mozilla publishing this?
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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#52I'm not even convinced deleting (and especially deactivating) your account does anything besides handing over control to Facebook and others. Perhaps it is better to obfuscate the data in your account and just not log in, even if emotionally less appealing than deleting.
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#53Why is Mozilla publishing this?
Content-marketing / keyword stuffing, so when you search for "How to delete Instagram", you get on Mozilla website and get to learn about it and eventually decide to download Firefox, which will make money out of ads from Google Searches and other partnerships.
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#54I have friends and family, and groups in which I discuss highly specific topics. I don't think there's a better tool than Facebook that allows me to stay up to date on things that are important to me. The equivalent subreddits are of much worse quality. I know this will get downvotes, but this is my opinion.
Discord has taken over this role for me and all my social groups. And unlike Facebook there's no ads, no viral bullshit, no astroturfers, no personal information, and you can keep your identities separate across multiple social circles (all of which are private and invite-only by default).
> And unlike Facebook there's no ads, no viral bullshit, no astroturfers, no personal information
The counter to all of this is "for now..." - there's no network that gets massive without falling prey to numerous kinds of incentives.
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#55Why is Mozilla publishing this?
Mozilla is very active on privacy advocacy and highlights Firefox’s privacy as a feature[0]. This makes some sense because the features of Firefox (cookie blocking, containers, first class ad blocking) all help preserve your privacy better than Chrome or Edge. As part of this advocacy space they’ve also done things like “privacy not included”[1] (the asterisk and lowercase are intentional, similar to the 1987 movie “batteries not included”).
[0]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/privacy/
[1]: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/about/
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#56I communicate with a lot of people on Facebook, but I hated that I ended up scrolling my feed. So I unfollowed everything and now I have an empty feed and nothing to scroll. I realize many have reasons to get rid of Facebook entirely, but for me this was a reasonable compromise.
Same - and this is really the crux of the matter. You are in control of how toxic your social media experience is. Find that a group or particular person is making your world a worse place? Unfollow/Unfriend.
People bemoan the Facebook of old where it was updates from friends old and new, and family - but that's still the core of the product, groups are optional.
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#57Please don’t do this. It’s really sad every time I want to reach out to an old friend and I can’t because they deleted their fb :( I mean, if you don’t have such connections then who cares, but if you do think about that
You weren't actually friends if all you had was a Facebook connection.
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#58If you want to clean history regularly instead of deleting the account, you can use https://redact.dev . I use it to clean twitter on regular interval. It works with every service except Google and Apple related ones (They can't add support for those without getting kicked off the app stores)
How do they get around only being able to get at your last 3000 tweets?
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#59Why is Mozilla publishing this?
Mozilla is very active on privacy advocacy and highlights Firefox’s privacy as a feature[0]. This makes some sense because the features of Firefox (cookie blocking, containers, first class ad blocking) all help preserve your privacy better than Chrome or Edge. As part of this advocacy space they’ve also done things like “ privacy not included”[1] (the asterisk and lowercase are intentional, similar to the 1987 movie…
Yes and no. Some of it seems genuine, but then you had the pocket debacle, as well as offering Google as the default search engine.
They're all for privacy (which is a selling point) until there's money on the line.
Much like Apple.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#60If you want to clean history regularly instead of deleting the account, you can use https://redact.dev . I use it to clean twitter on regular interval. It works with every service except Google and Apple related ones (They can't add support for those without getting kicked off the app stores)
How do they get around only being able to get at your last 3000 tweets?
It seems like if you are tweeting that much you might not be someone who needs this service.