Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
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#2Edit, Link should be https://justdeleteme.xyz/
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#3Edit, Link should be https://justdeleteme.xyz/
I quickly checked a few of those that say "impossible" and they clearly are possible - kinda makes me think I'd be better off searching for "[service] delete account" and just doing that.
(I did notice some said "subject to applicable law" - so I guess Europe!)
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#4I'd much rather they figured out how to fix their sync service - or at least let me actually delete everything on it and start again! I still get temporary containers coming back months after I have deleted them!
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#5Worth mentioning redact.dev here too for deleting posts and behavioural content on various platforms.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#6I'd much rather they figured out how to fix their sync service - or at least let me actually delete everything on it and start again! I still get temporary containers coming back months after I have deleted them!
sir, i dont think their content editor can do anything about that.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#7I have an Instagram account that I no longer own the e-mail or recovery phone number for. I have the password for it but every time I try to log in I get a ‘suspicious login’ warning and have to verify with said phone number. I want it gone but I cannot delete it. Loathe as I am I would even be willing to provide government ID.
Instagram literally has no contactable support if you aren’t a massive account (200k+ followers or whatever). I feel this should be highly illegal.
I have thought about retaining a lawyer and see if I can twist their arm legally (via GDPR), but I don’t want a simple account deletion to run in the tens of thousands of euros.
Yes I am intensely frustrated.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#8I'd much rather they figured out how to fix their sync service - or at least let me actually delete everything on it and start again! I still get temporary containers coming back months after I have deleted them!
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 settings were erased.
Except they weren't. To this day, I still get random ghost-like behaviour from my old container tabs settings. Google-contained apps will try to open in my banking container, as I gradually realise all of my containers were deleted but the URL-to-container mapping wasn't, and it was by ID not name, and the IDs have been reused.
Containers should be a core feature because they are /the/ feature ff has over the chrome army right now. I know they were (are?) trying to prove that core features aren't necessary because you can write anything in a web extension (IIRC that's how they justified getting rid of RSS), but it just hasn't been so in my experience.
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#9I have an Instagram account that I no longer own the e-mail or recovery phone number for. I have the password for it but every time I try to log in I get a ‘suspicious login’ warning and have to verify with said phone number. I want it gone but I cannot delete it. Loathe as I am I would even be willing to provide government ID. Instagram literally has no contactable support if you aren’t a massive account (200k+ foll…
You don't need a lawyer to send a standard "right to erasure" GDPR request and they are required to respond within 30 days: https://gdpr.eu/right-to-erasure-request-form/
Re: Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts
#10Worth mentioning redact.dev here too for deleting posts and behavioural content on various platforms.
Clickable link: https://redact.dev