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The solution is obvious. Allow people to export their data at least in a bulk snapshot, for the purpose of data portability. However, make it somewhat difficul

The solution is obvious. Allow people to export their data at least in a bulk snapshot, for the purpose of data portability. However, make it somewhat difficult/scary to do this, so that a personality quiz app won't be able to successfully trick you into agreeing to it.

samfisher83 9y ago
You can export your data. They even list what you can export: https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254?helpref=page_content https://www.facebook.com/help/405183566203254?helpref=page_c...
- nugi 9y ago
  'What you can export' is not the totality of data provided by, or collected about you. Only what they choose, or are compelled, to reveal.
  - hyfen 9y ago
    It also doesn't include any Instagram data
tedmiston 9y ago
There have been some third party services [1] that allow a data dump of your Instagram photos... which probably just lost their functionality in the API deprecation. (Though I think they were really _just_ the photos without the other data like your stories, drafts, comments, followers and followings graph, etc.) Perhaps locking it down puts pressure on IG to provide an official solution since others can't. Or... one could write some code to run a headless browser and scrape everything that can be loaded on desktop. [1]: https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/01/instaport-download-your-entire-instagram-archive-for-backup-or-upload/ https://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/07/01/instaport-download-yo...