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Can't leave facebook/insta permanently? Make yourself less valuable!
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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Anecdotally, some orgs refuse to use other platforms and gate their content behind a facebook group. It's maddening to say the least, but a fake account can come in handy sometimes (behind an iron shield of ad and tracker blockers!).
You should really talk to them about moving away from the book of faces, tell them all they do is sell your data without getting any of the benefits. The book of Faces and the Zak used that data to pay for Trumps election.
who? can you please list specific organizations that do this?
No, because i'm not going to share names of orgs that collectively could dox me.
But we're talking about a huge range of small businesses, municipalities, local groups (i.e. bike clubs), and advocacy events.
My regional police department issues important information about road closures, missing persons, etc. through twitter, as an example.
Another example of one that I've seen happening too often are health-related support groups are very often in "private" facebook groups, which are often joined by people who use their real name/real accounts. This opens them up to family members or employers finding out about health-related issues they did not want to disclose, or worse, insurance companies who purchase the data from these data scraping websites.
Even local businesses will post discount codes and coupons on these platforms, rather than through their website or newsletter.
There are hundreds of examples of people being "locked out" of information unless they join these horrible platforms, and that's not cool.