DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook wall posts

Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by flattone on Monday May 20, 2019 @03:49PM (#19964360)

probably safe to say that the idea of a user on a platform like Facebook trying to obfuscate their history on the platform... is a short jog from an individual trying to avoid government backed hacking on them.

Facebook has many years of pretty smart work, and probably safe to say tens of millions of dollars just in meetings about specifically this (re costs associated with effort of user data retention).

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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by luckylion on Monday May 20, 2019 @04:26PM (#19964792)

What will be the consequences though? I'm sure they can easily discover that the user is trying to overwrite his history, batch edits are easy to spot - but what will they do about it? Ban him & delete his data? Stop him from editing his own posts? Just throw away all changes that don't pass the smell test?

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Re:DeleteFB: Selenium script to delete all of your Facebook ... by flattone on Monday May 20, 2019 @08:12PM (#19966568)

I would speculate that they have built systems in a way that it would not matter what any user does. any edits to a already existing post probably just append

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