How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | TechCrunch
In the wake of Meta’s decision to remove its third-party fact-checking system and loosen content moderation policies, Google searches on how to delete
At the router. That is where I delete it.
at least it was. my family had posted photos and tagged me in them. At that point I hadn't had a FB for almost a decade. this was years ago now, but I doubt they changed it.
If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.
But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.
Unfortunately, I'm keeping mine to make a pipeline from there to actual content on Mastodon or BlueSky. But I basically put a URL in my bio and push a photo once a week.
Is it good to know that there ís still person in this world doesn't rely much more on social media even though that is the biggest mainstream in this world.
Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.
I only use it for messenger. And only then because it still has chat bubbles. There are many better messengers. But they don't have chat bubbles that draw over other apps.
I haven't posted on FB in years.
On Android, all messaging apps have bubbles.
Signal has chat bubbles
Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of "you" and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.
More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don't tell anyone your real phone number or email address.
Thanks, I Hate It
Why? META/Zuck is becoming more and more based by the day.
Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c
How to delete is not the problem. That's the trivial part. In fact, you don't even need to delete your account. Just stop using it and it's practically the same effect.
The problem is how to get your friends and acquintances out of there. Lots of things are there and only there. Like for instance, it's my jujitsu club's main place of information. If I quit FB, I will no longer know what's happening there.
I've barely used mine for years. Deleting it is feels much more satisfying and final.
the real guide we need is how to remove Facebook from the internet
The only thing keeping my meta account alive is Marketplace. Unfortunately, it’s much busier than Craigslist in my area.
Facebook has become a dirty flea market for me.
One can hope it turns into a flea market. Off the side of the hideway everyone passes but few seldom go.
Yeah the world moved from Craigslist to marketplace before I did. I found out the hard way when nothing was selling.
One thing I like about marketplace is you can view someone’s profile to see if they are an actual human that lives near you.
Marketplace needs to die, it's got most of the downsides of craigslist except for making it super easy for prospective purchasers to spam "still available?" Ad nauseum
Put pressure on the group owners to pack it up and move the group elsewhere. Where the group goes, they’ll follow.
they will never understand and ignore you since you're the only one complaining anyways
This is the problem I've run into. I wanted to stay as part of a social group I'm nominally in, but that group's only presence is on Facebook. And the group admins don't want to move somewhere else because a) it's change, and b) there aren't many other options as good at managing such groups.
On a related topic, does anyone know of a good Federated alternative to Facebook. Or at least an alternative that's less ad-riddled and more privacy-conscious)?
I looked around online last night and all the articles out there suggested things like Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter as Facebook alternatives, which are wrong on so many levels. I'm not that bothered about getting an alternative myself since I barely used FB anyway. But being my extended family's tech support, I keep getting asked about what good alternatives are out there. I'm finding nothing, but I'm likely missing a good Federated option.
I haven’t used it in a long time but I think Diaspora is intended as a decentralized FB clone. https://diasporafoundation.org/
I’m not sure if it uses ActivityPub or its own thing. It’s been around for awhile so it may predate ActivityPub.
i deployed a Lemmy instance to use... not sure if there's anything better
Didn't work; deleted my account but Facebook still exists. Bad guide 0/10
Virtue signaling 😁
Nah, Facebook and Instagram are the worst. Facebook is some ad riddled, AI slop, filled late stage capitalism hellscape. Worth not using just for mental health.
I quit all social media except for Lemmy, and I have to say it's been great. Especially getting off of Twitter.
I deleted my account back in 2013. One thing I didn't really think about was that someone else could spin up an account and pretend to be you after you leave. When I found out that someone did this I don't think I did anything about it, I just looked at the account, cringed, and closed the window and never went back.
Gizmodo's post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks
Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.
LOL! They’re not even pretending to be a news outlet anymore.
(Let’s see how many people miss the projecting by saying I’m missing the “joke”.)
Woosh
You need to block all their domains/IP ranges too otherwise they’re still profiting from profiling you across apps and websites.
Or install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ for the less tech savvy / lazy
That feels like the opposite of deleting your account or blocking them
Unfortunately, unscrupulous companies can build shadow profiles that bypass cookie and storage based isolation techniques like this.
Your browser gives off a lot of information. See here for some of the information they can use: https://amiunique.org
You're best off blocking things with uBlock Origin vs something that just isolates.
Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it
Has he contacted you yet to schedule a time to suck it?
I don't think that most of the lemmy crowd needs this info to beginn with...
But we may have friends and family members asking about it
And surely we would be happy to help if asked.
I deleted my FB account years and years ago, and AFAIK it has never broken into my house and forced me to look at it. But of course Bonespurs takes office pretty soon so I guess nothing is certain.
Pffft! This is soooo 2015.
I turfed FB in 2015 as well (didn't bother with the other stuff).
But now I'm worried I deactivated it and didn't delete.... I cannot remember.
If it's just deactivated-- I wonder if it's better to just leave it a greyed out graveyard, than to reactivate it just to delete. I feel reactivating would give it more information even, as I would be on a different device. It's been dead a decade.
What do people suggest?
Its deleted by now. However since you didnt request your data deleted complying with EU and California laws, its still very much there.
Do it! Delete it.
Where's the article on how to profit off of racist idiots on Facebook?
Make a red bubble store and sell political slogan T shirts. You can easily make a couple hundred a month just doing that. “This is Trump Country” shirts have been doing insanely well since November.
fuck!
i made a filter with words "zuckerberg" and "meta" but not "facebook"
Good call.
I did a year ago over their censorship. I don’t miss it.
Become a master hacker who can access their servers? Probably super illegal, though.
Is the process different from it was in 2015?
Now you must sacrifice your first born.
Is this @technology?
Oh hey, good reminder. The one upside to the fact that my FB account continually revived itself while I was using my Quest 2 is that now I can delete my account (for the last time, I hope) as part of a widespread protest instead of a one-off annoyance.
Anyone that still has these accounts hasn’t been paying attention the last few years and is part of the problem. I doubt many CURRENT Fb, Ig, Threads users will change their habits.
Dumb fucks
For those who need the context.
How to "delete" them? Words really have no meaning anymore.
It's short for deleting your account, data, etc.. People ommit those words for a long time now, like "Do you have Lemmy?" or "What is your Mastodon?"
I deleted mine many years ago, 10/10 would recommend!
If you’re still on those platforms, why would less censorship be the hill to die on?
Its less censorship AND an allowance of actual hate speech.
Tldr: u cant
In the UE we have the GDPR.
I often vpn into Europe to make gdpr request lol.
TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word "delete".
In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that'll never happen.
And in the sense that once you're known to them you'll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you've little chance of winning, yes.
But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that's what this article is about.
One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don't like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren't also doing a bunch of other heinous things.
And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.
