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Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by JeanMarcS »

As I still want to use FB (I use it for following bands I like to know when they make new music or where they play their next show), but am concerned by all those privacy issues, I use a Firefox extension by Mozilla :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

You can then use a container system. I've got one for all the google stuff (might be worse than FB on the privacy concern in my opinion), one for Facebook, one for some online site I don't want to cross data with anything else.

That plus uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, etc...

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by nunez »

Well, if you mostly use it as an address book of sorts, you can use something like Sync.ME and pull data from LinkedIn or Twitter instead. You'll get (somewhat) updated information if you're connected with them directly and whatever public information they reveal about themselves if not (same as Facebook). It even syncs contact photos!

This is what I do, except I also use Facebook as an information source, since people post their "fun" contact photos through there.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by lgregg »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #56
pera wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can always send them a message asking for their email addresses or phone numbers before deleting your account.

I imported all of my Facebook contacts into https://www.monicahq.com/ , which delightfully enough, I found during a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

Did you manually import them all? What was your process?

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by mars4rp »

frantzmiccoli wrote: post #7
sir_brickalot wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't live in the US so I am not familiar with this ruling, but are you saying that I am not allowed to use my own data that Facebook handed over to me in a neat zip file containing html files, photos, friends lists, messages... everything?

You surely are in your right to get your data, I guess there has been a misunderstanding, he was mentioning data about your contact. European GDPR is making this data export a consumer right (it comes applicable in may). Though I haven't heard about any service enabling data loading from a Facebook export (nor a Facebook export tool).

It is illegal to export your data from facebook by 3rd party even if you authorities it.

Google Facebook vs power ventures or https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/12/09/504999255/epis...

There is a reason for most of the monopolies, Government.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by toomuchtodo »

lgregg wrote: post #74
toomuchtodo wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I imported all of my Facebook contacts into https://www.monicahq.com/ , which delightfully enough, I found during a Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295

Did you manually import them all? What was your process?

The ol copy paste while binge watching a Netflix series on the couch method.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by rinze »

Treegarden wrote: post #24
drukenemo wrote: post #11

Call a good friend for a coffee face to face. I quit Facebook months ago, and guess what, no one cared. I keep contact with REAL friends far away via email or Whatsapp. For local friends I use Whatsapp and meet in person. There is no NEED for a true Facebook replacement. But to be honest, I created a new account, with a fake name and won't add anyone to it. The goal is to track some events and key communities I like…

I have many friends from Egypt, China, Brazil and other places but I live in Germany. If I visit Egypt in 2 years for some reason I want to shoot a message to my friends there to meet them for "a coffee face to face". There is no better service then facebook to enable this.

As has been said before: e-mail. I moved to Canada from Spain but go back from time to time, on holidays. Every time I go, I pick up the list of people I want to see and send them an e-mail. Has worked every single time.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by soziawa »

vorticalbox wrote: post #68
soziawa wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They'll know through your IP.

they will know that this IP sent this much data to that IP but not what was inside it. Your ISP knows the same when using a web site via HTTPS. They can see you send a request to the website but not what it contained. You could also use a VPn or TOR if you want to hide your IP.

And they'll know who you contacted and when. That allows for a lot of things to be guessed. Especially with hundreds of thousands of messages per user available to them.

Yeah, but my ISP has to follow the local laws and I can easily switch ISPs if I dislike my current one. Try that with Facebook.

Yeah, I might use a VPN but I'd also have to force all my contacts to use one as well.

Re: Ask HN: Where to go after deleting Facebook?

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Post by sir_brickalot »

sp332 wrote: post #73

Hey this is off-topic, but since you recently dumped your FB data, could you see if this kind of thing is in there? https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976368845635035138

I can't find a call history in my data. But I never used FB for calls. I never installed the FB apps on the phone.
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