Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to your WhatsApp data?

Re:Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to ... by verytrivial on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:53AM (#29613507)

Never accepted it. Moved to Signal. Didn't install WhatsApp when I upgraded my phone a few months ago. "unfriended" absolutely everyone on Facebook and manually destroyed all my Facebook activities going back to the creation of my account there. Absolutely all of it. The more difficult the process became, the more I realized how coercive they were in welding you into their network. I maintain an empty shell of an account filled with "creative" metadata due to some public groups and clubs that do not have the resources to manage their own presence online.

Suffice to say I did not respond well to the TOS change.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to ... by buro9 on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:14AM (#29613657)

Did the same. No longer on any part of Facebook offerings and no apps installed. Banned from my home network too. The only thing left is an empty WhatsApp account with a status telling people to find me on Signal.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you accepted the TOS that give FB access to ... by s7r on Sunday December 19, 2021 @09:45AM (#29614304)

You keep the shell because you're helping those groups maintain their own presence online? I'm looking into non-FB ways to do this, feel free to contact me, would be glad to explore and chat on it

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