I guess I'm safe since I live in a literal hell for Meta (GDPR-compliant country).
Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
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Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#42Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
I don't see it Meta will delete Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account and Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile mean exactly the same. In fact they are logically the same. It's like A iff B, means the same as B iff A.
The distinction is around intent. The parent's phrasing makes it seem as if its done for technical reasons (e.g. your threads profile and Instagram profile are actually the same thing) while the headline makes it seem like a business choice.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah like Zuck said your Instagram followers are already there - so the question is: if you gain a follower on threads, is it also a new follower on Instagram?
AFAIK, no. Your Instagram followers also aren't already there, FWIW: when you first log in it asks if you want to follow some or all of the same people you follow on Instagram; if you follow someone who isn't on Threads yet it becomes a "Pending" follow and will automatically follow them once they join. I am pretty sure the follow lists are then disjoint. (There actually seems to be a bug in this whole scheme btw whe…
> if you follow someone who isn't on Threads yet it becomes a "Pending" follow
Apparently this also spams them with an invite, which may be unpopular.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#44Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
I don't see it Meta will delete Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account and Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile mean exactly the same. In fact they are logically the same. It's like A iff B, means the same as B iff A.
> you nuke your Instagram account
> Meta will nuke your Instagram account
> exactly the same
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#45I sure hope so. No more welcome back with 1 click?
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#46I still can't believe it's app-only, that there's no desktop version. I refuse to wall off parts of the internet into silos that I have to enter through downloadable portals.
This is an intentional strategy to work around ad-blocking and other data harvesting practices. Just take a look at the privacy information screen in the iOS App Store for example.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#47Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
> Is that shitty user-hostile behaviour from Meta? Absolutely yes — but not that shitty.
I think you're reading too much into it. "Shitty user-hostile behaviour" would be "Muahahahaha, if anyone ever wants to get rid of their Threads account they must also *delete their Instagram account*, hahahaha, the world is MINE! MINE, I TELL YOU!"
Is that scenario more or less likely than "fuck it, just use the Insta signup server for auth, we need to ship something *today*" "yeah okay, that'll take me ten minutes"?
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#48Much as I despise Meta, I have to say that the article doesn't really say the same thing as the headline and it appears to be pure clickbait to me. Compare: > Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile with > Meta explains: “You may deactivate your Threads profile at any time, but your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account.” The title seems to imply that a use…
I don't see it Meta will delete Threads profile only if you nuke your Instagram account and Meta will nuke your Instagram account if you delete Threads profile mean exactly the same. In fact they are logically the same. It's like A iff B, means the same as B iff A.
One says that if your intent is to delete your Threads profile the only way to do so is to delete your Instagram account. The second implies (unsupported) that there's a way to delete your Threads profile that a user might not understand will also delete your Instagram account.
Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says
#49Meta will nuke your Instagram account for basically anything, including for no reason at all. I have like 50 followers, 10 photos, and check my IG once every week or two - haven't posted anything in months. Meta has banned me twice for unspecified policy violations (both times I had to send them a selfie and got reinstated, and there was no way to ask a human what these policies were). I suspect they'll ban/unban me…
They want your selfies for facial recognition in order to track you better across the web and possibly resell that information to third parties. Also a great dataset for "AI" training, so your face can appear in modified form in laundered pictures.
god save GDPR!