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
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.
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Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg...
That requires an adjuster
a special adjuster that andy has left at the office...
Don’t stop there:
sudo apt purge billionaires
Luigi isn’t a second rate character anymore.
&& sudo apt autoremove
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.
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.
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.
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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
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Didn't work; deleted my account but Facebook still exists. Bad guide 0/10
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
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.
Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it
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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
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Remember to hit the gym and lawyer up next.
This is a reference I haven't seen in YEARS.
Damn that takes me back.
I had to look it up myself, but it appears to be divorce advice (hit the gym, lawyer up, delete facebook)
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Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c
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.
At the router. That is where I delete it.
Where's the article on how to profit off of racist idiots on Facebook?
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Do it! Delete it.
fuck!
i made a filter with words "zuckerberg" and "meta" but not "facebook"
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accountkiller.com
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.
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