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Biggest problem to me is if you are a login with facebook user (or were ages ago), which is highly likely since many websites pushed it hard at the time, some l

Biggest problem to me is if you are a login with facebook user (or were ages ago), which is highly likely since many websites pushed it hard at the time, some like spotify requiring it. If you log back into spotify while its still deleting, even to move your account to a regular spotify account, it permanently reactivates your facebook account. You have to do all the cleanup, app deletion, etc beforehand.

khuknows 9y ago
This is my biggest issue too. It's the main reason why I haven't deleted my main account yet.
- craftyguy 9y ago
  So don't use services like spotify that 'require' an account until >90 days? IMHO, it's worth having to 'suffer' for 90 days.
  - Slansitartop 9y ago
    You can migrate all your Spotify stuff to a new, non-Facebook-linked account. I just did yesterday, and it wasn't that hard.
mehrdadn 9y ago
You an migrate Spotify out of the login-with-Facebook thing. Make a new account (or I think they can do that for you too) and then ask them to migrate your stuff to the new account. They migrate most things including your followers but not followees [word?].
- Just_Smith 9y ago
  I believe what they meant is that you have to "Login with Facebook"and migrating your account before deactivating Facebook, not that they didn't know how to migrate Spotify. I deactivated my Facebook before, and I had to go through each individual app and either migrate the account to a native login or completely revoke access from the app, if I didn't want them to undo the deactivation when I logged in later, Spotify included. I feel like they should put some sort of separation between the "Login with Facebook" feature and the Facebook app itself, so that logging in personally reactivates the account but logging in via an app simply verifies the credentials.
  - mehrdadn 9y ago
    Huh, do they not allow migrating while the Facebook account is deactivated? Didn't realize that.
    - cortesoft 9y ago
      No, they allow migrating, but doing so will cause facebook to reactivate your account. Basically, using any 'login with facebook' service after deactivating your facebook account will reactivate you.
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simlevesque 9y ago
Change your password to something else beforehand and this won't happen.
jventura 9y ago
If you delete your facebook account and had your spotify account associated with facebook, now you cannot login into spotify anymore with your email account. It happened to me, it's a very stupid thing, and as it seems, they (spotify) can't or wont do anyting about it..
- tlb 9y ago
  I deleted my fb account, and was able to recover my spotify account with the 'forgot password' mechanism.
  - fintler 9y ago
    > and was able to recover my spotify account with the 'forgot password' mechanism If you signed up for Spotify using Facebook, this doesn't work.
- wincy 9y ago
  Kickstarter is the same way. I had merely deactivated so it reactivated, and I had to switch to a local profile then redo the deactivation process.
JoshMnem 9y ago
> some like spotify requiring it. That's why I never used spotify.
- FractalLP 9y ago
  Me 2
- rspeer 9y ago
  I use Spotify and never connected it to Facebook. It's not actually required. They just make the "social" features of Spotify super hard to use if you don't connect to Facebook, which... doesn't matter.
  - JoshMnem 9y ago
    I think it was required a few years ago. It isn't required now, but I'm not interested any more.
wincy 9y ago
I’ve noticed that any online game these days (Fortnite, PUBG, as examples) either want you to link your Facebook account. With some that seems to be the only way to not have a guest account.

khuknows 9y ago

This is my biggest issue too. It's the main reason why I haven't deleted my main account yet.

craftyguy 9y ago
So don't use services like spotify that 'require' an account until >90 days? IMHO, it's worth having to 'suffer' for 90 days.
- Slansitartop 9y ago
  You can migrate all your Spotify stuff to a new, non-Facebook-linked account. I just did yesterday, and it wasn't that hard.

mehrdadn 9y ago

You an migrate Spotify out of the login-with-Facebook thing. Make a new account (or I think they can do that for you too) and then ask them to migrate your stuff to the new account. They migrate most things including your followers but not followees [word?].

Just_Smith 9y ago
I believe what they meant is that you have to "Login with Facebook"and migrating your account before deactivating Facebook, not that they didn't know how to migrate Spotify. I deactivated my Facebook before, and I had to go through each individual app and either migrate the account to a native login or completely revoke access from the app, if I didn't want them to undo the deactivation when I logged in later, Spotify included. I feel like they should put some sort of separation between the "Login with Facebook" feature and the Facebook app itself, so that logging in personally reactivates the account but logging in via an app simply verifies the credentials.
- mehrdadn 9y ago
  Huh, do they not allow migrating while the Facebook account is deactivated? Didn't realize that.
  - cortesoft 9y ago
    No, they allow migrating, but doing so will cause facebook to reactivate your account. Basically, using any 'login with facebook' service after deactivating your facebook account will reactivate you.
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simlevesque 9y ago

Change your password to something else beforehand and this won't happen.

jventura 9y ago

If you delete your facebook account and had your spotify account associated with facebook, now you cannot login into spotify anymore with your email account. It happened to me, it's a very stupid thing, and as it seems, they (spotify) can't or wont do anyting about it..

tlb 9y ago
I deleted my fb account, and was able to recover my spotify account with the 'forgot password' mechanism.
- fintler 9y ago
  > and was able to recover my spotify account with the 'forgot password' mechanism If you signed up for Spotify using Facebook, this doesn't work.
wincy 9y ago
Kickstarter is the same way. I had merely deactivated so it reactivated, and I had to switch to a local profile then redo the deactivation process.

JoshMnem 9y ago

> some like spotify requiring it. That's why I never used spotify.

FractalLP 9y ago
Me 2
rspeer 9y ago
I use Spotify and never connected it to Facebook. It's not actually required. They just make the "social" features of Spotify super hard to use if you don't connect to Facebook, which... doesn't matter.
- JoshMnem 9y ago
  I think it was required a few years ago. It isn't required now, but I'm not interested any more.

wincy 9y ago

I’ve noticed that any online game these days (Fortnite, PUBG, as examples) either want you to link your Facebook account. With some that seems to be the only way to not have a guest account.