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Ask HN: Would you use a service to unfollow everyone on your social media?

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Would you use a service that allows you to unfollow everyone on your social media in one click ? If so how much would you pay for it ?

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Once having used an extension named "Unfollow everyone on facebook at once" proved to be a very effective way to cut down the amount of pointless stuff on FB. Apparently, the extension was too effective and successful to stay unpunished:

https://techstory.in/facebook-quashed-chrome-extension-that-...

I stumbled over it back then due to the unavoidable Streisand effect and happily so. Combined with "Social Fixer" (see https://socialfixer.com for information), this made FB much more bearable.

Judging by it's CRX id, the code is still available via https://extpose.com/ext/pijkodjelolnmbehifeokihlodnajela/en (look for github on the page).

I would pay to have all my (forgotten) accounts deleted at socials, but also websites and apps

Ooooh that would be awesome ! How do you imagine it ? You enter an email or first name/last name and it deletes all of the unused accounts linked to it ?

There are free scripts and or tools with free trial like phantombuster.

So the response is 0$.

thanks for the info :)

There's free tools, so nothing.

I would use it if it was free. And even if it was a payed service, It would be a 1 time thing so I don't see it as a good business model.

yea

Maybe I'm an outlier, but I'd just create a new account.

These days, every time I have to pay for something online I ask myself: is it worth 5.5% per year guaranteed no-risk that i'm losing out if I'd buy bonds instead?

I know it's offtopic, but I did a review last month and stripped down number of subscriptions:

* Replaced Dropbox with GDrive that I already pay for as part of my personal Google Workspace subscription (email on my domain).

* After recent Apple One price hike I couldn't justify it canceled and got _exactly what I need_ (just 200GB iCloud and Music), 3x cost reduction.

* Started transferring my soon-expiring domains from Gandi to Porkbun (I was too lazy before).

And so on, there were some more and I trimmed my online spend down significantly.

Out of curiosity, anyone else is doing this sort of optimization? During ZIRP I never cared much.

It it's a one time paiement, would you consider it ?

Me personally (sample size 1) - not really, but my social network usage is non-existing. I only have X where I follow tech folk and that's it. Not a user of FB/Instagram/etc.

Mmmh i see

I remember when I was on Twitter, there was a service that did something similar, and it was free.

Do you remember the name by chance ? Did it work well ?

I think there was a tool called justunfollow. I never used it myself so I'm not sure how well it worked.

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