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I find it so interesting that you say that, because I, for a long time, have been trying to manually erase/obfuscate details in my Instagram account—when I go t
by throwaway738384 2y ago
I find it so interesting that you say that, because I, for a long time, have been trying to manually erase/obfuscate details in my Instagram account—when I go to unlike posts in bulk, after about 40 or 50 of them Instagram gives me an incredibly vague "Something went wrong" error while spouting something about "protecting our community".
Even funnier, I did this with my story archive, and it actually hid my entire archive from me after I deleted about 10 of them. Now, I can't access my story archive except through Instagram's "Download Your Information" downloader. It now won't let me delete or even view my past stories.
Food for thought.
- genewitch 2y agoi wonder if this is because they don't know how to secretly store (say, in an LLM) what your "reactions" were or whatever, so when you wholesale start wiping out your interactions on the site they have two conclusions - you're a bad actor who stole your account; or, you're stealing from them, stealing the only thing they care about, your personal info and preferences. Parent's issues predate GDPR (i think?) - but i do know i tried one of those reddit "wholesale delete all content and interaction" apps/scripts/plugins whatever, and i got the same thing. actually ignore my first, i just realized it's to stop people from either stealing and selling, or just the owner selling their account - imagine a 16 year old FB account, it'd be pretty hard to ban that account (you'd think). either way, it's my data, and i want it NOW