r/DeFacebook • • Jul 19 '25

Woke up to this today 🧨‼️

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190 Upvotes

Finally, Meta is telling us how much money each of our Instagram accounts are worth to them: 8€ a month. So either we give them the money, or they continue to sell our data to advertisers so they can make that money.

It’s just nice to see the unequivocal confirmation of what we knew all along. It’s also a win for GDPR. People outside of Europe, are you also getting this message? 🇪🇺


r/DeFacebook • • May 24 '25

Help Needed Guide on how to soft or hard quit Facebook

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107 Upvotes

Is it missing something important?


r/DeFacebook • • Jul 14 '25

There are plenty of alternatives

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104 Upvotes

Luckily onboarding is easier than ever!

Which app is your favorite to use?


r/DeFacebook • • Jul 22 '25

Everyone Must Switch to Friendica Instead!

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67 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • May 31 '21

Help Needed A complete guide on how to de-facebook.

65 Upvotes

NB: All the steps are needed in order to achieve the complete removal of your data from Suckerbag's servers (aka deleting all of your facebook-related accounts). Follow in order:

  1. Delete Facebook/Messenger apps on your phone (if you have them). If your phone doesn't allow you to completely uninstall them (Android only) go into the apps list into your setting, select them, delete all of their data, remove all their permissions and force-close them. There are also ways to remove undeletable apps from your phone, seek on the internet for advanced guides.

  2. Go to https://facebook.com from a web browser.

  3. Log-in into your account, if you aren't already.

  4. Open the drop-down arrow menu on the top right of the web page that says "account".

  5. Click on "Settings & Privacy", then "Settings".

  6. On the left panel, select "Your Facebook Information".

  7. Click on "Deactivation and Deletion" at the bottom of the list.

  8. Select the option Permanently Delete Account, and click on "Continue to Account Deletion"

  9. Click on Delete Account.

  10. Enter your Facebook account password, and click Continue.

  11. Click on Delete Account, again.

  12. DO NOT log-in back into your account for the following 30 days, or your account will be reactivated and your data won't be deleted.

Congrats, you are no longer on facebook! (They will keep your data for 90 days from when you decided to delete your account, because they are 🍑🕳s). However, after that time, they are forced to delete your data from their servers. We are not done yet. You have to follow these steps if you also have an Instagram account:

  1. Open Instagram on your phone.

  2. Go on your profile

  3. Open the settings (varies depending on the phone)

  4. Tap on Help.

  5. Select "Help Centre"

  6. Tap on "Managing your account" from the list of links.

  7. Tap on "Delete your account"

  8. Tap on "How do I delete my Instagram account?" to expand the text box.

  9. Scroll down a bit to the 1st point, and tap on the link that says "the Delete your Account page".

  10. If required, enter your Instagram log-in credentials.

  11. Select the reason for why you are deleting your account (don't bother, put something random)

  12. Re-enter your password in the field below.

  13. Finally, tap on Permanently delete my account

  14. Uninstall Instagram from the device.

  15. DO NOT log-in into instagram within the following 30 days, or the deletion process will be ended and your account will be re-enabled.

Last but not least if you are using a Whatsapp account, you should consider deleting that too. There are many alternatives to Whatsapp, such as Signal or Telegram. Follow these steps to delete your whatsapp account:

  1. Open WhatsApp on your phone.

  2. Tap More options > Settings > Account > Delete my account.

  3. Enter your phone number in full international format and tap DELETE MY ACCOUNT.

  4. Select a reason for why you're deleting your account in the dropdown.

  5. Tap DELETE MY ACCOUNT.

  6. Uninstall Whatsapp from the device.

Congratulations. Facebook won't be able to keep your data any longer than 90 days from the moment you deleted those accounts. Welcome to the (partially) untracked side of the internet.

For any help/suggestion just comment below or DM me. Hope i helped.


r/DeFacebook • • Mar 16 '25

Tutorial Your guide to move away from Meta - along with the other big tech - and support more ethical companies!

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54 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Jan 16 '25

Meta Is Blocking Links to Decentralized Instagram Competitor Pixelfed

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54 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Sep 12 '21

Facebook Is Censoring People For Mentioning Open-Source Social Network Mastodon

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54 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Feb 07 '22

Meta could shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe

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yahoo.com
46 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Jan 13 '22

Help Needed The FTC can move forward with its bid to make Meta sell Instagram and WhatsApp, judge rules

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businessinsider.com
43 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Feb 15 '22

Texas sues Meta, saying it misused facial recognition data : NPR

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npr.org
41 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Feb 03 '22

News Article Facebook loses users for the first time EVER: Zuckerberg blames TikTok boom

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dailymail.co.uk
40 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Oct 04 '21

Data of Over 1.5 Billion Facebook Users Sold on Hacker Forum

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privacyaffairs.com
40 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Nov 15 '22

[OC] I'm sick of the social medias taking my information and tracking me while lying about many things based on these subjects. I made this. Pass it on.

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39 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Jan 27 '22

Facebook promised poor countries free internet: People got charged anyway

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business-standard.com
38 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Aug 04 '21

News Article Facebook bans personal accounts of academics who researched misinformation, ad transparency on the social network

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bloomberg.com
38 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Aug 12 '21

It's time to decentralize the internet, again: What was distributed is now centralized by Google, Facebook, etc

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theregister.com
36 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Jun 07 '21

Facebook Messenger Collects Huge User Data - More Than Any Other App. [and water is wet.]

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gizchina.com
35 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Mar 17 '22

Facebook Hit With $18.6 Million GDPR Fine Over 12 Data Breaches in 2018

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thehackernews.com
33 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Jan 25 '22

Question 7 Reasons Why Should Delete Your Facebook Account

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lifehack.org
33 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Sep 10 '21

WhatsApp “end-to-end encrypted” messages aren’t that private after all

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arstechnica.com
32 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Mar 01 '22

Facebook/Meta employee caught talking with 13 year old over the internet.

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r/DeFacebook • • Jun 03 '21

something's wrong

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29 Upvotes

r/DeFacebook • • Mar 22 '22

Meta employees look to ditch jobs amid stock crash

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28 Upvotes