Funny you think Facebook wonâ(TM)t have your data if you delete your profile off of it. Facebook tracks you accross other sites through cookies and compile profiles on you whether you are a member or not.
Funny you think Facebook wonâ(TM)t have your data if you delete your profile off of it. Facebook tracks you accross other sites through cookies and compile profiles on you whether you are a member or not.
Which is why I let uMatrix block the Facebook widget and all third party Javascript by default. Which breaks an appalling number of sites these days, but then I selectively enable the missing pieces needed. Frequently jquery.com and a few others. One I never enable is facebook.com.
If you live in California and they keep your data after you request deletion, that's a several thousand dollar fine they are looking at for each instance.
Funny that you think I allow/keep those cookies. I don't have an account in the first place, its possible that they have some phantom profile of me but its not worth much. When you block ads and tracking its a lot harder for anything FB does to be meaningful.
But only one person needs to delete Facebook -- no need to delete it multiple times, since after the first time there's no Facebook anymore. And no need for "normalizing".
I deleted my Facebook account and so far it's been worthwhile in a limited way, despite some isolation from some friends and organisations who tend to do most things through Facebook because that's where everyone else is.
I'm still, however, living in a world where large populations of people are influenced to levels of accuracy that were unprecedented before Facebook entered the scene. This affects how populations interact, how they perceive each others opinions, what they buy or don't buy, how they see e
normalize deleting Facebook (Score:5, Insightful)
Wouldn't we all be better off if we normalized deleting Facebook? Facebook won't be able to shit the bed with your data if they don't have your data.
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Funny you think Facebook wonâ(TM)t have your data if you delete your profile off of it. Facebook tracks you accross other sites through cookies and compile profiles on you whether you are a member or not.
Which is why I let uMatrix block the Facebook widget and all third party Javascript by default. Which breaks an appalling number of sites these days, but then I selectively enable the missing pieces needed. Frequently jquery.com and a few others. One I never enable is facebook.com.
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If you live in California and they keep your data after you request deletion, that's a several thousand dollar fine they are looking at for each instance.
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That's coming to an end as all major browsers disable third party cookies.
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Funny that you think I allow/keep those cookies. I don't have an account in the first place, its possible that they have some phantom profile of me but its not worth much. When you block ads and tracking its a lot harder for anything FB does to be meaningful.
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Simply deleting your account won't fix much (Score:2)
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