Hacker News Reader

Comment by laythea | Hacker News Reader

Should be titled: "How I Erased A Copy of 5000 Facebook Comments and Likes"

Or "How I have additional data to Facebook about my erasures on top of the copy of data I planned to erase".

Up next: "How I wrote an article that explains how to do something, which actually doesn't do anything, and helps in absolutely no way other than make people feel better they did something rather than nothing"

Up next: how I wrote a comment hating and contributing nothing to the discussion.

Well, it does something: it erases your public comments on FB, and even more so, shows in a few steps how a programmer can go about doing so. Not everything has to be about what FB knows.

Agree. Facebook might still have them in some log or neural thinggy about you, but it will protect you from direct profiling like the Cambridge Analitica debacle. If it would turn out that deleting the activity still allows Facebook to keep them and sell them to 3rd parties, it would be a company-ending event, so there is at least self-preservation.

Why do you presume that once you come off facebook, your data is not used? That is not true, the data gets used and pimped around to the highest bidder. What is true, is that as time passes that data has less value (assuming you actually stopped pumping in the data in fb).

You just defined "raising awareness."

"How I added 5000 'erase' activities to my FB profile"

"Then deluded myself and told the story"

How did I hide my Facebook activity from myself and my friends?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com