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Don’t these services have a “takeout” option like Twitter, Google? Where you can download everything for free?

Facebook does, Instagram does not.

This is not true, Instagram also offers this:

https://www.instagram.com/download/request/

huh, TIL. I apologize. "Privacy and Security" is an odd place for that menu.

As it's an EU law a bunch of companies have this automated. In the EU you can request the data that a company has on you from any company via a letter / form.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...

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