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(subtitle, I react to facebook.com links as if they were phishing links and what would be the difference? scraping my contacts, selling my personal data, rewriting my TOS at every opportunity. I view the home page of facebook even without logging in as a phishing site. Sorry Mark. :()
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Thank you. I never use Google+ and I was so irritated by their youtube migration attempts recently that I didn't look back.
That's weird. I got asked _once_ if I wanted to migrate my YouTube account to G+, I said no, and never got asked again.
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What if someone knew your password and requested it to be deleted? Wouldn't you be "Why can't they just not delete it after a period of days?"?
Ah, the old security vs freedom debate. I would know whom to blame if I had used a weak password that got cracked in order to delete my account. And I think you should expect the same from every reasonable adult. But yeah, FB should add a stronger auth for that dialog - more than a password and a captcha field.
You think all the reasonable adults understand strong passwords?
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Thank you. I never use Google+ and I was so irritated by their youtube migration attempts recently that I didn't look back.
That's weird. I got asked _once_ if I wanted to migrate my YouTube account to G+, I said no, and never got asked again.
I get pestered every time I log in.
To all the skeptics in threads like these: asking that Facebook actually, entirely, erase all your data isn't a reasonable demand. Unless, if course, you're also OK with Facebook's walled-garden, Facebook-is-the-Internet, Compuserve-wasn't-so-bad strategy. Anyone who ever tried to delete content from the internet knows this: The Internet Archive has long since made a copy of what you're trying to delete. Anything you…
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That's weird. I got asked _once_ if I wanted to migrate my YouTube account to G+, I said no, and never got asked again.
When was the last time you logged in, from an logged out state? I get pestered every time I log in.
I have a standard Google Account username (i.e. my username and not my real name appears when I comment) and it's not linked in any way to G+ (although I _do_ use G+ often, might that be the difference?).
To all the skeptics in threads like these: asking that Facebook actually, entirely, erase all your data isn't a reasonable demand. Unless, if course, you're also OK with Facebook's walled-garden, Facebook-is-the-Internet, Compuserve-wasn't-so-bad strategy. Anyone who ever tried to delete content from the internet knows this: The Internet Archive has long since made a copy of what you're trying to delete. Anything you…
The Internet Archive makes it very easy to remove content from their site. I had a family web site accessible to the public for 12 years with about 25,000 pictures on it. For various reasons I took the site down but archive.org still showed the pictures. A quick change to robots.txt stopped that though. Basically, even if the archive grabbed the files at a point in time they periodically check to make sure they still have the right to those files in robots.txt. If they don't, they won't display them. I was vey impressed with them when I learned this.
At least I have the option to delete my FB account. On the other hand, Google has lately been aggressively pushing me to convert my YouTube account into a G+ account. Once this is actually forced upon me, is there any way to 'delete' my Google+ account without deleting my YouTube one?
It seems so: https://plus.google.com/u/0/downgrade/
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That's weird. I got asked _once_ if I wanted to migrate my YouTube account to G+, I said no, and never got asked again.
I've seen stories both from people who continually got pestered (like myself) and from people who didn't (such as yourself). I dunno why though.
At least I have the option to delete my FB account. On the other hand, Google has lately been aggressively pushing me to convert my YouTube account into a G+ account. Once this is actually forced upon me, is there any way to 'delete' my Google+ account without deleting my YouTube one?
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