1mo ago

Can't leave facebook/insta permanently? Make yourself less valuable!

How to Change Your Meta Settings | Make yourself less valuable to Meta. Brought to you by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

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.

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1mo ago

John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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1mo ago

John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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1mo ago

John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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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. :(
- Does she not have uBlock Origin installed?
  
  Yeah, and that works on her laptop's browser, but her primary computing device is her mobile phone. So ads on YouTube app, ads on Facebook app, ads on Instagram app, also ads on TV YouTube app.

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!).
  
  You should really talk to them about moving away from the book of faces, tell them all they do is sell your data without getting any of the benefits. The book of Faces and the Zak used that data to pay for Trumps election.
  
  who? can you please list specific organizations that do this?
- 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.
  
  That is one thing I have not found a replacement for but is it worth having a Facebook account you continue to use just for that? Maybe you keep your facebook account but stop using it for anything but market place.
- 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.
  
  I have friends from decades ago, some of which I would message and months or in some cases years later I would get a message saying I do not really use Facebook anymore so we chat and I get new contact info.
  Talk to the charities inform them that they are giving money away to the book of faces, and that money was used to elect Trump. Encourage them to move to something like mastodon. This goes for your mommy’s church as well, if they want to pay the Zak to get trump into office then they should continue to use the book of faces, if they do not want to support a guy who could not even put his hand on the bible when being sworn in to office.
  I understand the meeting people where they are but remember your mental health is more important than other peoples, if that means stay on facebook so be it but just remember facebooks goal is to make you depressed so that they can give you the occasional dopamine hit so that you come back.

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.

John Oliver wants your rat erotica dot com?
- Yep, that's the domain.

Pixelfed is Canadian! It's a great alternative to Facebook and the dev is super nice. It's also open source and federated.

is it possible to adblock the mobile app completely?
- Have to do it at the dns level with something like pihole
  
  This is the way, but more importantly get off of the book of faces.
  
  i have one! what lists are you using to completely block fb ads?
- Unsure!
  
  Pihole

fun fact: you can delete your facebook account. you can delete your instagram account. there are other ways to “keep in contact” with randos you have in your orbit, such as the “contacts” app built into your phone.
- Wow, really???!!!??? Gee willickers, I bet no one thought of that!
  This post was directed at those who have chosen not to for whatever reason.
  Like many, I have a few hundred loose ties on there. A couple months ago, one I hadn't spoken to in more than a decade messages me because we are now in the same city, so we caught up and now see each other etc. Is your suggestion that everyone should spend however many hours messaging those loose ties just in case things change down the road? How many hours would you allocate to that?
- Pixelfed > Instagram
  And it's Canadian.

I personally still have an account, I read somewhere when I was thinking of deleting my current account that keeping your account active cost the Zak and Meta money via ad stuff rather than closing it completely. No idea if that is true or if it is anything noticeable but I have all Meta things; ad trackers, ads, and the book of faces proper blocked via my pihole setup.

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