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- mandomafioso4
I quit a month ago when Zuck finally pissed me off with his anti-democratic bullshit. Removed opposition party pages in Russia. I know seems small but it was the final straw.
Wasn't so much the collection of data that pissed me off. It's a free service so kind of expected. More an eff you to a mega corp with no oversight or responsibility.
- maquito4
Done.
- instrmntl2
https://startuponestop.com/the-t…
Mark Zuckerberg testified before Congress last month, and there were a few points he needed to clarify. He promised to get back to the legislators, and so he did.
Here’s the list:
information from “computers, phones, connected TVs, and other web-connected devices,” as well as your “internet service provider or mobile operator”
2. “mouse movements” on your computer
3. “app and file names” (and the types of files) on your devices
4. whether the browser window with Facebook open is “foregrounded or backgrounded,” and time, frequency, and duration of activities
5. information about “nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons, and cell towers” and “signal strength” to triangulate your location (“Connection information like your IP address or Wi-Fi connection and specific location information like your device’s GPS signal help us understand where you are,” said a Facebook spokesperson.)
6. information “about other devices that are nearby or on their network”
7. “battery level”
8. “available storage space”
9. installed “plugins”
10. “connection speed”
11. “purchases [users] make” on off-Facebook websites
12. contact information “such as an address book” and, for Android users, “call log or SMS log history” if synced, for finding “people they may know” (Here’s how to turn off contact uploading or delete contacts you’ve uploaded.)
13. information “about how users use features like our camera” (The Facebook spokesperson explained, “In order to provide features like camera effects, we receive what you see through camera, send to our server, and generate a mask/filter.”)
14. “location of a photo or the date a file was created” through the file’s metadata
15. information through your device’s settings, such as “GPS location, camera, or photos”
16. information about your “online and offline actions” and purchases from third-party data providers
17. “device IDs, and other identifiers, such as from games, apps or accounts users use”
18. “when others share or comment on a photo of them, send a message to them, or upload, sync or import their contact information”
- PhanLo0
- Not even close.monospaced
- what da font?utopian
- FritzbookMrT
- Bennn1
OMG just discovered we can disable Retweets in twitter!
thats a game changer!
- thanks Gnash for pointing me to Twitter. I made a huge cleanup and its suddenly more interesting.Bennn
- the massive retweeters made me back off from it. Some people seems to retweet EVERYTHING and it pollute your timelineBennn
- Agreed. The worst is when they retweet the same user over and over. I follow someone because I want to read their tweets, not other people's.set
- disable the retweet! I'm using Twitter again since I discovered that functionBennn
- i follow you think btw :DBennn
- detritus3
Time to build a new kingdom!
- BonSeff3
https://twitter.com/gilbertjason…
SENATE BAILIFF: Raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and—
MARK ZUCKERBERG [with a big fake smile]: So, that’s a great question, and it’s something everyone at Facebook is really passionate about
- Bennn0
Google Plus could have become a nice FB replacement, but people, brands, medias and else didnt stick to it. The layout and functions are very nice on G+
- cannonball19781
Don’t just delete your Facebook.
Delete it and don’t replace it with a similar social media outlet.
- Better yet, don't delete it, don't use it, don't talk about deleting it in other places such as QBN.
#grownassmensoundofreason - Nah delete it.cannonball1978
- Better yet, don't delete it, don't use it, don't talk about deleting it in other places such as QBN.
- Fax_Benson1
download your google data history (youtube, location et al).
https://takeout.google.com/setti…
if you want to delete it all you'll have to do so for every device you've used.
- confused - how do you deleted all this data - if that is indeed what they actually do.mugwart
- "Note: Downloading your data does not delete it from Google’s servers"
shame! hey ho - need to get from them anywaymugwart - don't know - I guess this is just a means to let you have it before deleting it (if indeed you can, permanently)Fax_Benson
- Bennn-2
Facebook has become the one and only place to follows the bands, brands, shows and others stuff that you like, a few years ago we needed to visit their respective websites, these days many of them dont even have a proper website.
So, I'd delete Facebook but I want to know when my favorite bands are releasing a new album or coming to my town, for example.
Facebook is also the only communication channel I have with some members of my extended family. So i'm kinda stuck with Facebook.
- fuck the conditioning that Facebook is connecting your life together, that's bullshit
plenty of other alternatives out there, stop being lazy and re-organiseBluejam - I use twitter for that. haven't used FB in yearsGnash
- (for the bands, I mean)Gnash
- Twitter is so noisy... so many retweet and shit. I should clean my follows maybe.Bennn
- Yeah, I use Twitter and Instragram to follow bands and get release / tour dates. Facebook can get royally fucked.face_melter
- Bands: Twitter, bands' websites
Family: phone, text, email
Art/Jokes: QBNKrassy
- fuck the conditioning that Facebook is connecting your life together, that's bullshit
- detritus0
And this is just it...
https://twitter.com/EmmaKennedy/…
...It doesn't matter if I'm not part of FB or Google - I'm not part of FB, but I've had this beef with Google and Android/Gmail, etc for a while now - all FB and G need are for a % of the population to sign everything away at their end and they have a comprehensive surveillance net covering pretty much everyone else too.
Exactly what Cambridge Analytica did with their App, is exactly what underpins FB's and G's de facto omniscience and/or implict business model.
Fuck em all.
- < I think., sadly, it'll be the celebrity and politco angle that makes people sit up and notice.detritus
- For some reason people, inc. a few here, have no problem with signing away everything to these guys. Well, I do, and thankfully so too rich people.detritus
- In relation to < that tweetstream thing - I love it when people mispell 'public', accidentally leaving out the L.detritus
- can you make sense for just one day?pinkfloyd
- To you? Unlikely. Not this day, not any.detritus
- Lol, detFax_Benson
- fooler1
Massive Attack Leave Facebook Due to Cambridge Analytica Scandal
“We sincerely hope they change their policies around these issues”
- Maaku3
It's that time of the year again?
- fooler0
Looks like you can't "Delete" your account you can only "Deactivate" it. All the info will still be there.
A few years ago there was a FB delete application called "Web Suicide Machine" that went in a deleted every picture you posted, unlike every post you liked, untagged you in all your "friends" pictures.
Looks like the FB lawyers made them stop with a cease and desist letter.- you can delete it. you have to google it and go to a specific site. then don't sign back in or else it will reissue you your account.capn_ron
- they didn't make it easy though, that is for sure.capn_ron
- well if you sign back in and it reissues it, then it's not entirely deleted!shapesalad
- i think it has a 30 day time limit on that part. i'm sure the info is never gone, but it does get rid of your account after 30 days. at least is says it does.capn_ron
- facebook.com/help/de...instrmntl
- https://facebook.com…instrmntl
- cannonball19781
been off for years
- SO THAT'S WHAT THE SMELL WAS.
HAW HAW HAW HAW WHEEEZE HAWdetritus
- SO THAT'S WHAT THE SMELL WAS.
- i_monk1
I haven't deleted my account, but I did take the app off my phone (I needed the storage space). It seems even less useful/compelling when you only check it once a day from your desktop or use the clunky mobile site.