Re:Facebook – You are the Product
by bauerd on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:16PM
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Yes, and I didn't know that either until I tried it out. My regular FB account is "deactivated", but Messenger works just fine. They seem to have decoupled both products some time ago.
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They removed that possibility some time ago. Now if you disable your Facebook account, it's reactivated as soon as you log into Messenger. Tried it just a few days ago.
I just tried deactivating, and upon logging in to Messenger (which works) it logged me into Messenger, but not FB.
Sweet!
Re:Facebook – You are the Product
by chickenfries on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @03:23PM
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Wait, that's awesome. I've been using news feed eradicator but now you're telling me that I can delete my Facebook account and still have a messenger account?
Does that messenger account work for "sign in with facebook" buttons? For example, the only way to authenticate with Tinder is a Facebook account.
No, you can't use the Messenger account for authentication. At least for Tinder I can confirm it doesn't work, maybe there's an OAuth provider for Messenger that no one uses, idk
Re:Facebook – You are the Product
by silassales on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @04:10PM
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No you cant sign into any other accounts with facebook, well you cant without reactivating it. If you sign into a deactivated facebook account even into a game, or something similar, it will count that as a account sign in and reactivate your account. If you fully delete your account, you wont be able to sign in at all.