Clario’s summary on the types of personal data collected by various companies is a sobering / fun (depending on which side of the aisle are you on) article. Continue reading The companies that know most about you – which ones do you trust?
Tag: facebook
Unclouding update: I’m loosening the Google grip (and other (re)movements on my mobile.)
In a way, Facebook implemented “dark mode for the web” years ago… https://t.co/3dHQzpGOGs
— gergo lippai (@gergolippai) May 1, 2019
I cleaned up my phone a bit (a bit further) recently. Continue reading Unclouding update: I’m loosening the Google grip (and other (re)movements on my mobile.)
The funny thing about Facebook’s “Messenger-WhatsApp-Instagram can chat to each other” idea…
…is that they could actually do this in a way that doesn’t upset users, the press, European data privacy watchdogs, and Cory Doctorow (and me.) Continue reading The funny thing about Facebook’s “Messenger-WhatsApp-Instagram can chat to each other” idea…
The invaluable Facebook Messenger. (A rant.)
By now I’m down to Messenger only, when it comes to Facebook. Not that I officially stopped using Instagram, I still have an active account… it just so happens that the iPhone’s hideous camera killed my creativity and there’s no new content — helping me delay the “quo vadis, photoblog?” question until I get a proper phone, or camera. But I digress. Continue reading The invaluable Facebook Messenger. (A rant.)
So I tried to deactivate my Facebook account.
I have been de facto inactive on Facebook for a long time. Haven’t used it, haven’t checked it (and it feels good), so I thought let’s deactivate it.
Except I need to keep Messenger, because that’s where friends from the old country are. (Yes, I need to convert them to something better, but that’s a separate issue.)
To tell the truth, I have tried deactivating my account before, but somehow always got reactivated, and I never really had time to understand how and why. “Some dark pattern”, I presumed, but didn’t really have time to investigate — until now. Continue reading So I tried to deactivate my Facebook account.