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Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by dredmorbius » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 6:08 AM UTC

webvictim wrote: post #89

dredmorbius wrote: post #87

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Just to vouch, though not in Facebook's case, it is complicated. Many sites use a CDN (Akamai, Limelight, Amazon's Cloudfront, etc.). The whole idea of a CDN is that it distributes content. Even if the origin goes away (your copy), the CDN may continue serving it for a long time. If someone has a specific item URL within that network, they can still access it. Working with CDN APIs to delete content (especially if, s…

Facebook uses CDNs; how is it not complicated in the way you describe for them too?

I phrased that poorly: I'm vouching for the general case, not for Facebook specifically. I've not worked for them or on their systems.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by axelfreeman » Fri, Jul 12, 2013, 12:14 PM UTC

dredmorbius wrote: post #84

themonk wrote: post #64

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it would be nice to have some standard method to delete the content.

Emailing them is the standard method. Sometimes, you know, you've got to, like, talk to people.

I did this with my old website and it worked great.

Re: How to permanently delete a Facebook account

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Post by rwmj » Sat, Jul 13, 2013, 10:27 PM UTC

antitrust wrote: post #82

duskwuff wrote: post #75

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I'm pretty certain that this isn't the case. If anything, it's the other way around - if a domain changes hands, and the new owner sets up a restrictive robots.txt, the content in the archive is made unavailable, and stays unavailable even if the robots.txt (or the whole domain) later disappears.

This has been my experience as well. Once the content is deleted, it's gone.

This is not true.