"Close" is not "Delete". Would be nice to have actual guides on deleting your data, for example for Spotify.
https://justdeleteme.xyz: "Public playlists will be anonymised, delete any playlists you want."
Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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#32I 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.
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#33I 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.
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#34Please 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
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#35Please 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
Please use email instead, which is a standardized open protocol that does give people some choices.
You can always exchange email addresses before closing down accounts to stay in touch.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
firefox containers is both the killer feature of firefox for me (I can't leave it) and also the jankyest. I don't think mozilla knows they have gold on their hands (but do they ever know?). I lived through the firefox extension debacle in 2019 or so when FF accidentally let a cert expire and it helpfully uninstalled all my "unverified" extensions, of which container tabs was one. When everything was fixed, my setting…
I suspect that Mozilla looks at the telemetry and very few people use containers. I'd guess because users don't understand what they're good for. Perhaps you, an enthusiastic user, could do a little writeup somewhere (here?) on why they are the cat's meow.
> very few people use containers
Not many people use any extensions[1], which is why it should not be an extension, even if it is actually an extension in terms of implementation. Certainly I wouldn't expect my parents to discover and install the extension, but I might expect them to be able to be taught to use a first-class feature.
[1]: As the Firefox base dwindles further to only a hard core of techies, this might not be true, but it's probably true of Chrome: only 13 extensions have over 10 million installs and Chrome is used by over 2 billion people.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#37Please 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
Please use email instead, which is a standardized open protocol that does give people some choices. You can always exchange email addresses before closing down accounts to stay in touch.
My generation doesn’t use emails basically. I changed emails quite a lot through my younger years as did my friends so it wouldn’t have been useful. We used to ask for people’s facebook shortly after meeting them. It’s the best tool to create and maintain your social graph. I understand that not everybody use it this way, and that’s fine, but if you do please think about that. It’s really heart breaking how I lost contact with old friends due to this
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#38I 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 did exactly the same thing a few years ago - now it feels like a pull service that I'm in control of, instead of a push service with an algorithm controlling the content I view.
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#39Here's a sample letter for European citizens that would like to make a legally-binding data subject deletion request:
https://www.datarequests.org/blog/sample-letter-gdpr-erasure...
Send this letter by email and my registered snail mail letter to the Data Protection Officer of the company (e.g. Facebook's Dublin Office).
Violating such a request can lead to fines of 4% of annual revenue of any offending company.
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#40There was a really good service like 10 years ago that auto deleted Facebook/Instagram and so on. Sadly (and obviously) Facebook and co were extremely unhappy with such a service existing and took devastating steps to kill it.
That said, it would be great to have some kind of service like that again. It shouldn’t be hard to erase a digital identity, that’s what GDPR stipulates anyway.
More info on the service I’m referring to: https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/12/facebook...