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Comment by prolikewhoa | Hacker News Reader

Who is ever going to trust that these settings actually do anything except for the button animation after the previous two weeks of privacy disaster for Facebook?

Probably most of the country, actually. =\

Mark my words, their stock price goes right back to $180 over the next two weeks.

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Facebook users are still the product, and information about them is still what brings Facebook revenue.

Let's say a user makes these settings as strict as feasible, but only some or none of their contacts do the same; in that, the default and common case, the information about the concerned user may still exist in some form.

people who don't wear tinfoil hats

That's kind of a silly comment when we have proof that Facebook's poor design lead to abuse.

there's a distinction between abuse from a third party and outright lying on the part of fb. suggesting that deleting data leads to nothing more than a CSS animation is asserting the latter.

I think the reality is that data will no longer "look" like it's in the data download, I'm sure FB will keep it to continue performing ML algorithms to pursue more and more ad revenue. Hopefully they will at least remove the code that is collecting it so that it stops in the future. No tin foil hat needed to believe this route.

“Delete this (from my visible feed)” might be the effect that you see, but that doesn’t mean it’s not still being used to feed your advertising profile or shared in some way with third parties.

or read the newspaper

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