How do you delete facebook if you're at the stage where they've requested you upload a photo ID, passport, SSN, lock of hair, and stool sample just to sign in?
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a bizarre take. You should continue to volunteer your personal information to an ad-tech behemoth… in order to prove you’re not an addict?
Yeah I'm pretty sure that the whiskey in the basement isn't spying on you It would be a truly messed up world if that was the case
> whiskey in the basement isn't spying on you
Everyone important in the world already knows my SiL bought it for me, tracked at the point of sale using a loyalty card, tracked via her credit card, her highway pass shows she visited to deliver it to me on my birthday, it probably has a RFID chip somewhere either for theft protection or inventory tracking (maybe in the presentation box not the bottle itself "obviously"?). The bank has a record of what she bought which is probably legally or illegally shared with the health insurance company and/or medical care. Her fitbit tracked her walking thru the store.
But, yeah, the "real" threat to my privacy is people on HN now know I have an expensive bottle of whiskey, LOL. Or my cat-meme sharing account on FB, if I used FB, would know that I have a nice bottle. Because that distractor is the "real threat" not everyone in the paragraph above whom I have zero control over.
If an organization or whatever knows they're going to piss people off, give them a false sense of control. Maybe give them fake elections where both candidates are insiders. Maybe provide corporate oversight by a revolving door between the regulators and the regulated. Its all pretty standard propaganda stuff.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#123How to I delete my HN account?? (not this throwaway account, but my real one)
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a bizarre take. You should continue to volunteer your personal information to an ad-tech behemoth… in order to prove you’re not an addict?
Binary thinking. You can ONLY actively consume or actively delete, unthinkable that you can passively not use it. Its like claiming its impossible for that bottle of whiskey to sit, undrinking, on my basement bar top, whiskey can only either be chugged immediately or angrily poured down the drain. Its impossible that bottle is sitting there without my drinking it. I assure you, despite your claim that its impossible,…
Ironic that you talk about binary thinking then proceed to think of Privacy only in the binary of having it from government or not.
Aside from you being factually wrong on your take (you have massively over stated the competency of government and big finance, their data is more wrong than it is correct)
That however is not the only, and in many cases not even the most important, realm for which one may want to protect their privacy
At this point I am not sure what is more ignorant, your thoughts on addiction or your thoughts on privacy... it is a pretty close race
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#125missing how to delete your Mozilla account?
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#126I 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.
These companies hire psychologists in droves to make their products more addictive. There are certainly ways to combat their manipulation techniques, but let's not pretend this is some neutral product and try to pin the blame on the users. Cigarette companies used the same tactic and it hasn't gotten any less repellant.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#127I 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.
I've done this for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. It's really effective.
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#128Personally I think it’s a bad idea to delete any of your accounts. It becomes a huge hassle to claim anything if there’s a situation in which you need an account that can show that you have ownership. In particular if you see a photo of you or yours somewhere and want it modified or removed. Not to mention there’s really no value in deletion. Log out, stop using all of the clients. The end.
> Not to mention there’s really no value in deletion. Log out, stop using all of the clients. The end. I see value in deleting information about me on the Internet. Not to hide it from companies like Facebook (because they probably hold you data even if you delete them), but from other people. You never know who can use your pictures/profile for. Obviously, the first step would be to not publish sensitive information…
You don’t need to delete your account to hide it. Deleting your account simply just stops your ability to prove who you are if you later find your stuff archived or mirrored somewhere.
I don’t really see what you gain by deletion. Better off running one of many scripts to delete all your data and retain the account
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#129It really gets me that Mozilla has adopted this political / activist marketing style. It feels so fake.
Mozilla, as in the foundation, is broader than the browser and that blog has been running since 2007 with plenty of privacy focused content on it. The point of Mozilla has always been to advocate for an open internet rather than a corporate one, so I don't see the change in objective here. Firefox is one means to that end. Not sure why "marketing", "political" or "activist" are supposed to be negatives.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#130It really gets me that Mozilla has adopted this political / activist marketing style. It feels so fake.
Exactly, I was surprised and had to check twice that i was actually on mozilla.org, after I saw the unpretentious attack to Joe Rogan