How to change your settings to make yourself less valuable to Meta

Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by chii on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:02AM (#43169046)

closing an account is a datapoint.

What i do is completely ignore facebook, and the rest of their properties (including whatsapp now).

ublock origin to block out the social media links/badges, and make sure to never visit facebook site directly.

Hopefully, what this means is that my "account" and whatever they identify as me, looks like an inactive user with zero potential to be advertised to.

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Re:How to change your settings to make yourself less valuabl... by raaron773 on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:48AM (#43169296)

I remember in 2012-13 facebook didnt even have a delete account option only deactivate. I dug deep enough to stumble across a facebook delete link in their community support or something. I made sure to change all my details and then i used that link to delete my account. Used my friends account to verify if it was actually deleted or not.

Never visited facebook since. Its great!

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