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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by HankB99 on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @03:26PM (#16691916)
Were I FB, I would make sure that the deletion only made the data invisible to the user and kept it for their customers. After all, we "gave them permission" in the first place so this would not violate that. If they're smart, they're already doing that.
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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by naspinski on Tuesday March 27, 2018 @04:42PM (#16692544)
That is surely what is happening - a general (not always, I know!) rule in programming is to never delete anything, just mark it as deleted/deprecated/etc. and do not show it.
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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by cwkoss on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @02:40PM (#16700499)
This leaves two possibilities:

If they don't let advertisers query deleted data - my original proposal would be effective at preventing third parties from getting your data.

If they DO let advertisers query deleted data - you can 'poison' you account by posting and deleting a huge volume of misleading advertiser-relevant data.

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Re:How I Erased Facebook Comments and Likes by ascendantlogic on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @09:37AM (#16697511)
Yeah, I'm pretty sure deleting doesn't really take the data from Facebook. Really all you can do is stop the flow of new data to them.
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