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Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere

14 points by ramharts

by stupidarkptrn

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I'm a physician with a very rare name and recently discovered a fake profile with "my exact name, MD" with 75 friends from one (very foreign) country, some fake pictures of someone likely AI generated....all made in the last week or two, clearly a prelude to some form of scam or reputation ruining extortion attempt...and it's impossible to take it down. I've tried. And if you Google me this profile is on the first page.
Someone stole my likeness to harm me or gullible innocent's, this is going to come back to burn me, and there's nothing I can do.
Cool dystopia!

by Desafinado

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It's alarming how many blatantly anti-human features they've deployed. The one that gets me is arbitrarily restricting users from deactivating their Instagram account. You can only deactivate your account a week after re-activating it.
Why? Because some sociopathic moron thought that was a good idea, instead of just letting users access a feature.
How toxic must their corporate culture be to get this bad?

by journal

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