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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by antsar on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:26PM (#16691368)
I "deleted" 11 years of history using this[0] Chrome extension. Took a few days to get through everything, and I had to re-run it a few times because it missed things.

[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...

Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by allanbreyes on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:06PM (#16691750)
It doesn't cover untagging, from I gather. Also, you can run it at 16x speed. It "deleted" ~15 years of history for me in less than an hour. And yes, it does miss a few things.
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by olyjohn on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:50PM (#16692132)
Do you really believe that it's completely deleted? My theory is that you can delete all you want, they still have it.
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by allanbreyes on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:35PM (#16694449)
No, and I'm pretty sure the parent commenter doesn't either. It's why I put "deleted" in double quotes, as the above comment did.
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by coryfklein on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:21PM (#16691878)
> It doesn't cover untagging

Using the "Hide" button instead of the "Delete" button I think works on untagging.

Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by allanbreyes on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @09:32PM (#16694435)
It hides it from _your_ timeline, but the backlink to your profile still remains. You have to actually untag it.
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by barryduffman on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @02:45PM (#16691536)
So now you've given that extension full access to your Facebook account. And if you didn't uninstall it after using it, it's still able to see everything you do on Facebook. How is this any different from the Cambridge Analytica mess people were upset about in the first place?
Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by billysielu on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:05PM (#16691740)
Same, bit of a nightmare, but it did get there in the end.