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Honestly, there is no way. Even if you do manage to fill out their opt-out forms, they will successfully opt you out of most internal AI training, but metadata

Honestly, there is no way. Even if you do manage to fill out their opt-out forms, they will successfully opt you out of most internal AI training, but metadata will still be trained on and AI projects which are either too important or unmaintained will still use your data. In ten years there will probably be a lawsuit about it and you’ll receive 10 dollars in damages. Oh, and this isn’t unique to Meta, and I have no special knowledge about Meta to inform this. This is just true about all large tech companies. The only way to be sure is to not use their products.

stderrout 2y ago
The way is to stop using user hostile products and encouraging others to use more open platforms. In Metas own words and many like it by using products/services you are consenting to being product for companies interest as they see fit.
- rpastuszak 2y ago
  Precisely my approach, and with decent success so far, but for some of my friends this needs to be done in smaller steps. In reality, it’s hard for them to move away overnight since they got tricked into using those tools first. Getting there though. In other words: I just need a month+ to finish setting up my pixelfed instance after my day job, clear my IG accounts and put a version of this image there instead: https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1778797698302234905 https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1778797698302234905.
rpastuszak 2y ago
Yeah I ditched most of their products ages ago (anything besides IG), and I’m not an active user, just poster (art). But moving my friends away from this crap just takes time. And they’re really patient with me already (I don’t want to alienate people, but I want to help them make the right choice. A slower approach has worked with WA → Signal for instance)
muzani 2y ago
Meta pays billions of dollars for data/privacy violations, year after year. It's just a tax to them. https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/12-billion-euro-fine-facebook-result-edpb-binding-decision_en https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/12-billion-euro-fi... All the big tech companies break some law, but Meta is indeed unique in that it happily breaks privacy and data laws and then pays the fine, despite being ordered not to do it again.

stderrout 2y ago

The way is to stop using user hostile products and encouraging others to use more open platforms. In Metas own words and many like it by using products/services you are consenting to being product for companies interest as they see fit.

rpastuszak 2y ago
Precisely my approach, and with decent success so far, but for some of my friends this needs to be done in smaller steps. In reality, it’s hard for them to move away overnight since they got tricked into using those tools first. Getting there though. In other words: I just need a month+ to finish setting up my pixelfed instance after my day job, clear my IG accounts and put a version of this image there instead: https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1778797698302234905 https://x.com/rafalpast/status/1778797698302234905.

rpastuszak 2y ago

Yeah I ditched most of their products ages ago (anything besides IG), and I’m not an active user, just poster (art). But moving my friends away from this crap just takes time. And they’re really patient with me already (I don’t want to alienate people, but I want to help them make the right choice. A slower approach has worked with WA → Signal for instance)

muzani 2y ago

Meta pays billions of dollars for data/privacy violations, year after year. It's just a tax to them. https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/12-billion-euro-fine-facebook-result-edpb-binding-decision_en https://www.edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/12-billion-euro-fi... All the big tech companies break some law, but Meta is indeed unique in that it happily breaks privacy and data laws and then pays the fine, despite being ordered not to do it again.