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Comment by swamp-agr

The situation is quite interesting here.

- Imagine, you're living outside of USA/UK/Europe.

- Formally, it's possible to proceed with "Permanently delete my account".

- You will even receive email assuring you that two weeks later profile would be completely deleted.

- Then, couple years later you'll occasionally seen email from facebook that someone tried to log in into your ("permanently deleted") account.

- You'll try to log in, probably restore and change the password among the way.

- And after that you'll be successfully logged in. And the profile's state would be like nothing changes. Nothing. Completely.

- You'll contact Support. Seriously? They'll ignore you.

- Maybe some interaction with 3rd-party websites triggered cancellation of the process, you thought.

- Then, you'll implement blacklist just to avoid any interaction with facebook, something similar to: https://pastebin.com/FAV2f9eA and try to repeat the flow again.

- Then another 2+ years later situation will repeat again. Deja-vu. And again. And again.

There's no way to delete facebook profile if facebook didn't really care about its users.

parent swamp-agr 5 years ago

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