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WhatsApp Co-Founder Tells Everyone To Delete Facebook, Further Fueling the #DeleteFacebook Movement (theverge.com)
"In 2014, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 billion, making its co-founders -- Jan Koum and Brian Acton -- very wealthy men," reports The Verge. "Koum continues to lead the company, but Acton quit earlier this year to start his own foundation." Today, Acton told his followers on Twitter to delete Facebook. From the report: "It is time," Acton wrote, adding the hashtag #deletefacebook. Acton, who is worth $6.5 billion, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nor did Facebook and WhatsApp. It was unclear whether Acton's feelings about Facebook extend to his own app. But last month, Acton invested $50 million into Signal, an independent alternative to WhatsApp. The tweet came after a bruising five-day period for Facebook that has seen regulators swarm and its stock price plunge following concerns over data privacy in the wake of revelations about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of user data. Acton isn't the only one taking to Twitter to announce their breakup with Facebook. The #DeleteFacebook movement is gaining steam following the New York Times' report about how the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump's successful 2016 bid for the presidency. For many users, the news "highlighted the danger of Facebook housing the personal information of billions of users," reports SFGate. "And even before the Cambridge Analytica news, Facebook has been grappling with its waning popularity in the U.S. The company lost 1 million domestic users last quarter -- its first quarterly drop in daily users."
It's never to late to act sensibly.
I have a new tag: #idontwantsocialmedia. Now I am going to post this tag everywhere!
Nae king! Nae laird! Nae yurrupiean pressedent! We willna be fooled again!
...to get yourself hard-banned.
So that they do not want you in their graph data set anymore. So that your are poison to their data and "community"!
Which is surprisingly easy: Just give yourself an offensive fake name, and change as much of your profile as you can to fake offensive shit.
They will then ban you, block your profile, and demand that you prove that your fake name is real with personal documents that they would never ever get, even if your name was real. Like a copy of your passport, or personal bank statements or utility invoices. So you can’t go back, even if you wanted. And they can' use your profile like that.
And other "deleting" will still result in a continuing shadow profile.
If you live in the EU, remember that you have a right to get ALL data they have about you. Make sure you get that if you want it, before doing the changes.
the data of 50 million users had been unknowingly leaked and purchased to aid President Trump
Facebook's business is *knowingly* providing access to those data. The only reason Cambridge Analytica was dinged was because Facebook didn't get their cut.
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Delete all you want but FB still retains all the information you shared.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2018/03/19/the-problem-isnt-cambridge-analytica-its-facebook/#385336e658a5
The problem isn't Cambridge Analytics. Obama's campaign was much worse about digital snooping. (Getting DVR viewing history? Seriously?)
But neither of them has abused their power nearly as much as has Facebook internally. The part about FB researching depressed early teen Australians for advertising purposes is probably just one of many extreme examples.
Time for FB / Google / Amazon to be broken up using the old trust busting laws.
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I deleted my Facebook account back in the beginning of November 2017. I am now 120 days free from the bullshit! There is no way I will ever go back. I hope more people join the movement to delete Facebook and lead richer, fuller lives.
WhatsApp Co-Founder Tells Everyone To Delete Facebook
Friend of mine proudly told me one day that he deleted Facebook, but to my great disappointment, the next day I was still able to ping it.
I hope someone manages it though.
But people who know they should #delete FB don't have FB in the first place.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
So:
"We sold you all out to them years ago, including all your data, for money to become billionaires. Now we are telling you that you shouldn't ever give them your data and should delete your account with them immediately."
Tell me a) why I should listen to you, b) how you think this makes you the hero?
I deleted my Facebook account back in the beginning of November 2017. I am now 120 days free from the bullshit! There is no way I will ever go back. I hope more people join the movement to delete Facebook and lead richer, fuller lives.
Let me guess. You still have a Twitter account though. At worst Facebook is super annoying, but you can make a case that Twitter is actually doing real harm to human society, yet which of the two do you still probably have? Yeah.
Yes, Signal is open source:
"Free for everyone. Signal is made for you. As an Open Source project supported by grants and donations, Signal can put users first. There are no ads, no affiliate marketers, no creepy tracking. Just open technology for a fast, simple, and secure messaging experience. The way it should be."
Works with Android, iPhone, Linux, and Windows.
"Stay private. Signal messages and calls are always end-to-end encrypted and painstakingly engineered to keep your communication safe. We can't read your messages or see your calls, and no one else can either."
#DeleteFacebook
Ok
#DeleteWhatsapp
Ok
#DeleteTwitter
Ok
#DeleteInternetAccess
?!? No Twitter account
cat "#DeleteInternetAccess" >/dev/lpt
Ok
I think you've got it backwards, as far as voting. Turnout rates are pretty much directly proportional to age.
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https://www.npr.org/2016/05/16...
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Yes! Poisoning the database is the best way.
Won't someone make a plugin that peer to peer shares your advertising stalking cookies to randomize them? It'd be tougher for them to filter out genuine cookies to keep the poison out. For bonus points report that it's being done 6 months to a year later. Later publicly ask whether they're disclosing this or get quotes for an ad buy to see.
MAC addresses don't go very far in network protocols. The only way facebook can get it is if an app has slurped it up and sent it as part of the tracking data. Are apps doing this?! The person above was using a browser. Do browser APIs allow this? I hope not.
...it just offers a way for people to pretend having an enviable life.
I use FB to discuss interesting topics with interesting people. It's like Slashdot, only without the trolls and adults act like adults. FB, except for the ads, is entirely what you make of it. I see posts that interest me because of the sources I follow. (CNN, CNN International, and BBC News are a few.) The responses to the posts I share are civil even in disagreement because I'm discussing topics with friends. One of my high-school friends is a huge DJT supporter; I'm very much a critic. I call DJT a liar; my friend calls DJT a visionary; we defend our stances and disagree; and then we play Words With Friends. On /., it's hard to mention DJT, CNN, or FB without calling forth name-calling idiots. If your FB feed is full of pics of people sharing their dinners or whining like children, that's entirely your fault. The only real drawback to discussing topics on FB instead of Slashdot (apart from getting mined) is that we tend to stray wildly off-topic.
He's getting rather old, but he's a good mouse.
See, how Trump destroyed the innocent company? In 2012 Obama's campaign did the same thing with Facebook data about millions of users, and it was all fine — a testament to Obama's genius, in fact.
Had Hillary won, Facebook would've been just peachy as well. Damn Trump!! #Impeach!!
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Why is this even a story? It's the stated purpose of these companies to sell your information. Eric Schmidt even stated "Google isn't free, the cost is your information".
It's simple, keep your personal information... personal.
To all you sheep who purchased Alexa, google home, or Nest.... do you really believe these things are not sending your personal behavior out to be sold, scrutinized, and monetized...
Do you know there's a HIPAA waiver you release when you accept the ELUA of FitBit or Apple smartwatch?
Come one people... think.
It's taking longer than I expected for Facebook to go the way of MySpace, but it looks like it's finally going to happen. Remember, on Facebook, the product they are selling is your personal data! Google, on the other hand, is advertising supported.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Lots of people (like me) hate FaceBook because of the business model. But we must understand that FaceBook is a useful service. So any discussion about #DeleteFacebook needs to propose an alternative. The problem is that, in order to get around the "advertiser pays" model, people must be willing to accept some other model. Possibilities are a pay service, or a service where you host the data yourself and control it. The latter has been the way the web worked for decades. My friends and I all had "home pages" on our "web sites." There have been alternatives before, like Diaspora but none have gained critical mass. Oh wait look! Here's a list of them: Distributed social networking.
At the risk of making this a rant: Internet users today seem to have no concept that "web sites" are anything other than things that corporations buy. Some of those nice corporations let you put stuff on those sites, either for a fee or in exchange for intrusive monitoring. That's not how the web works. I've had my own web site for 20 years, and it costs me about $5/month. This idea that we should have our email addresses all at sites that record, monitor, and sell our emails is preposterous. Back in 1998, many of us predicted that everyone would have their own server in their home that ran their web site. And there would be standard protocols for exchanging social information, running something like OwnCloud. I don't know why that model changed. Is the FaceBook backlash enough to get us back onto that model?
I had a FB account for about 2 months back in 2008 or 9. Then I saw photos one one of my inebriated classmates from a party that had happened over the weekend and the potential for self destruction hit me like a ton of bricks. I figured that potential employers were going to start scraping that stuff and all it takes is a couple dumb pictures to cost you a job. I went through all photos tagged with my name (no, none of that type) and untagged them, then deleted my account and never considered going back.
You don't realize that MAC addresses don't go past layer-3 routers.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
So, they used Facebook data to help Trump win, making facebook and its owner look like idiots at best and Trump/Russian supporters at worst, making the owner toxic to run himself.
That has to be some kind of record in political efficiency.
Anyway, follow the money. Someone is selling FB short.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
..and nothing of value was lost.
No one is going to say to you "you didn't get the job because of photos of you wearing a dress on FB". You'll never know why you didn't get that job, you just won't get it. Your attitude is fine as long as your parents have a basement you can live in, but if you need a job to eat and pay your bills and other things that adults do, you'll take what you can get, good company or not.
4 years ago he sold his company to FB. Which means he's been waiting 4 years to finish collecting those billions/unloading the FB stock he got. Now that he's no longer financially/contractually tied to FB, he's speaking his mind.
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