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So Instagram shouldn't allow you to delete one of your pictures simply because I could have already grabbed a copy of it? That's ridiculous. I'm not protecting

So Instagram shouldn't allow you to delete one of your pictures simply because I could have already grabbed a copy of it? That's ridiculous. I'm not protecting myself against anything, I just like to be in charge of my data. By the way: This whole "nothing is forgotten" thing is a straw man anyway. Not being able to fully prevent something doesn't justify not trying. Murder comes to mind.

muyuu 12y ago
As I said before, I appreciate that all approaches regarding this have their pros and cons. That means I accept there are reasonable pros too. However, from my PoV, anything that can give the false illusion to the mass that their data is truly deleted when a server stops showing it (or even internally deletes it to the best of their ability) it's an overall negative. General rule of thumb as far as I'm concerned. You are more likely to trigger the attention of malicious crawlers by deleting your stuff than you are of protecting almost anything.