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Meta could track your browser sessions even in incognito and link them with your real identity
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Or you could just not use their toxic bullshit. I haven't logged into Facebook in like 6 years.
Yeah, but they'll still create a shadow profile on you and track your data anyway. Have a friend with an account? Your name and phone number is known to them. Even without a true identity attached, they will track you from your own devices, and then correlate that with everything else they can at every opportunity.
Also, Facebook is preinstalled as a system app (cannot be uninstalled without adb) on various manufacturer's and carrier's android builds.
Lmao, y'all have friends? 🤣💀
IIRC Facebook was not installed by default on my Samsung A32, and there is no trace of it now so I don't think I removed it. shrug Otherwise, use privacy features in your browser/on your device
Be brave, do it. I just did it a few months ago. Just push the trigger and delete it. Let it go. They will of course keep the data, but at least not legally anymore.
I haven't deleted it because there are a couple of people I might theoretically need to get in touch with at some point that I don't have contact with otherwise.
Fair enough.
I held on to this possibility for similar reasons for years, but after some honest self reflection I cannot say there would be anyone from my past life who is still important and I have no other means to contact, my Facebook bubble from 10 years ago and more is long dead, i.e. similarly inactive.
Maybe giving people an email address, phone number or username somewhere else via Facebook message before leaving for good could also be a solution.
You can still use a browser for that occasion. Meanwhile the app is doing things in the background.
I haven't had the app installed since I got my phone. I don't believe it was installed by default, or if it was I removed it immediately.