Can't leave facebook/insta permanently? Make yourself less valuable!
Meta is one of the highest performing American stocks and 98% of their revenue is advertising. Make it harder and strike a blow for Canada!
The guide is easy enough that parents, grandparents and other non tech types should be fine with it.
I left a few months ago. I don’t miss the updates from people I drifted away from. I do enjoy the conversations I must now initiate to maintain worthwhile relationships. Hearing about somebody’s week face to face is worth a lot more than a few dozen “happy birthday hope it was a good one” replies once a year.
Select “No, don’t make my ads more relevant by using this information.”
I tried this with my wife once... She cracked and voluntarily turned that setting back on after she started getting a ton of alt-right advertisements. :(
Can't leave facebook/insta permanently?
...why not?
…why not?
Anecdotally, some orgs refuse to use other platforms and gate their content behind a facebook group. It's maddening to say the least, but a fake account can come in handy sometimes (behind an iron shield of ad and tracker blockers!).
Personally, I've got good friends from decades ago there, so I will on occasion use it to message folks.
Other groups: charities run a lot of stuff through there.
I know my mom's church organizes through their facebook after requests from parishioners.
But more importantly, the key to winning this and most mass efforts is meeting people where they are instead of demanding they be 100% pure in all their choices.
Marketplace, occasional info behind the pay wall. Unfortunately can't just leave Facebook, but I try to not make myself a profitable target by aggressively limiting my data.
John Oliver wants your rat erotica dot com?
Yep, that's the domain.