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If you remember and know where to look. Google eventually asked if I wanted to remove a phone I'd stopped using 2 years ago the other day.
Google's is pretty easy: https://myaccount.google.com/ Under Device activity
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> I really expected them to sell it to telemarketers. reply I doubt they'd sell it to telemarketers, but they'll use it for every dark pattern under the sun to increase your engagement. Frankly, your engagement is much more profitable to them than a one-time sale of an email list.
They're not mutually exclusive.
Just reading this may have just pushed me over the edge to delete my account... except i need it to use tinder and bumble. I already havent signed in for months and i feel great. I only use messenger, but now im starting to see annoying ads polluting my messenger list.
Have anybody believed to their pledge "to never spam you and only use it for ensuring your account security?"
Delete your facebook/instagram/whatsapp/ account asap. The sooner the better.
I don't understand why they require your phone number to do 2FA, and prefer it over any OTP app like Google Authenticator. It's 2018 Facebook.
Maybe they like phone numbers. Nevertheless Google Authenticator's permissions are in another league completely and one should probably be as suspicious of Google as Facebook. Version 5.00 can access: Camera take pictures and videos Other create accounts and set passwords full network access control Near Field Communication use accounts on the device control vibration
No fucking way. A company whose revenue absolutely depends on user engagement is coercing users into engaging with the platform. I'm shocked. Shocked to hear about this. I can't possibly imagine how this could've happened. It's time to rethink everything we know, rewrite C in rust, and put the social back in media.
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I do the same with B2B email spam. Just give another spammer's info, so company A spams company B, B spams C, etc. I've got a small list with CEOs emails, numbers, etc. Not legal, but I like it
It's not legal? What part is illegal?
Not as egregious, but Twitter last week started spamming my email once a day with a “HEY YOU SHOULD SIGN IN AND CHECK OUT YOUR NOTIFICATIONS” message. After 5 days of that I finally bothered to look. The notifications were about someone mentioning me in December. https://i.imgur.com/MaH7EcW.png How about not doing that?
I just deleted my account instead.
I had the same thing happen with Facebook texting me to post after I turned all notifications off in settings, which was the final straw that got me to delete my FB account too.
Now it’s a pattern I repeat everywhere: if your site emails me, I always will click unsubscribe, and go through every possible setting you have to stop you. If you email me again, I delete my account.
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That thing facebook does with demanding your phone number, that's my favorite dark pattern. Apple does the same thing with iOS upgrades. First you pose a seemingly innocent question, like 'would you like to give us your phone number so we can keep your account secure?' or 'would you like to upgrade to new iOS?'. Then you take away the NO option. You replace it with 'i'll decide later'. And by doing so, you make it no…
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