Post 9pCb8NaZQLy88MKKSe by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
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(DIR) Post #9p9Xc5uQjrCwhKeMlc by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T12:11:00Z
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So happy to finally take the plunge and #DeleteFacebook. Good riddance to a scourge of the web.
(DIR) Post #9p9cWtFOt3FTkcnRVw by PankajBallabh@mstdn.social
2019-11-20T13:13:44Z
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@Floppy just make sure that none if your devices or browser accesses FB by mistake in these 30 days as FB automatically reinitiates your account. I deleted the apps, changed the password using a browser, did not save the pwd, and then cancelled the account. #HappyIndependenceDay
(DIR) Post #9p9dBuwZU7mssvYKMS by savvyasaachi@mstdn.social
2019-11-20T13:21:10Z
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@Floppy It's better to put it on snooze. And never use it.
(DIR) Post #9p9echL0HNiASZJYae by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T13:30:01Z
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@savvyasaachi done that for a while and lost nothing, so time to finally clear out :)
(DIR) Post #9p9eche98D1XPwGqQa by savvyasaachi@mstdn.social
2019-11-20T13:37:11Z
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@Floppy I have snoozed it from 2012.
(DIR) Post #9pCb8NaZQLy88MKKSe by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T12:15:39Z
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Deleting LinkedIn as well while I'm feeling fruity...
(DIR) Post #9pCb8ODv43Rc6OjknI by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T12:43:32Z
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Forgot I had an Instagram account, as I never used it, but might as well bin it so away it goes.
(DIR) Post #9pCb8ObfdkRXI3qioa by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T12:49:22Z
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Now, WhatsApp, that's the big problem. That I would actually miss out on stuff. Not *much*, but a few important things. How I wish that as an Internet we'd stuck with federated messaging and XMPP.
(DIR) Post #9pCb8P5npiXunVwmmW by ej@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T15:06:26Z
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@Floppy If its about online habits, I totally get this - but if it's about data privacy, aren't WhatsApp and Facebook essentially the same thing?
(DIR) Post #9pCb8Pgfce2KdrCEFM by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T15:57:30Z
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@ej it's both, and yeah, I definitely see WhatsApp as a privacy concern. I really want to bin it, but I didn't really lose anything of value by getting rid of the others. WhatsApp will be harder.
(DIR) Post #9pCb8Q9jsZHy60nRYW by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-20T15:58:26Z
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@ej my current plan is to try to run a matrix homeserver to sandbox whatsapp away from everything else I do, so at least it's restricted to only what I voluntarily put through it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #9pCb8QYCPcr3JsEygK by ej@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-21T23:42:10Z
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@Floppy Cool plan! (Seems to be going well so far, too, ased on subsequent toots?)Bit tempted to do the same myself - not a WhatsApp user, but it does make social life a bit difficult when everybody else is..D'you think Zuck would still be getting useful metadata of some sort from the WhatsApp account?
(DIR) Post #9pDQQNwDxYJO5knYsi by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-22T09:16:54Z
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@ej yeah, it could never be a clean break, but at least it might be sandboxed away somewhere...
(DIR) Post #9pDmNb8Kdp1r8gXPDU by ej@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-22T13:22:51Z
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@Floppy I dunno, though? (Here be dragons: iffy reasoning ahead!) Zuck won't be getting location information or device metadata, and presumably message content is e2e encrypted? If so maybe that just leaves message timings and contacts metadata? If so (2), maybe that stuff would be easier to aggregate in WhatsApp clients than pull from server logs*? If so (3), maybe your data would pass him by?* Cause it'd be offloading as much processing load and bandwidth usage as possible onto the users
(DIR) Post #9pDmwlrkjIgAYqYSfo by Floppy@mastodon.me.uk
2019-11-22T13:29:14Z
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@ej yeah, sandboxing it would definitely reduce the data leakage.