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U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says

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1293 points rmason | 10 comments | 06 Mar 19 20:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.5s | source | bottom
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peteretep ◴[07 Mar 19 05:44 UTC] No.19325816[source]▶
By far the biggest factor that had me stopping checking Facebook, and indeed LinkedIn, is number of utterly fictitious notifications they generate. There was a time a few years back when that red dot made me drop everything to check FB, but these days it’ll be some completely bullshit message they’ve made a notification out of. Feels like they got greedy for my attention and killed the golden goose there. I check it about once a day now, and in the browser not the app. If the notifications were still meaningful I’d probably still have the app and all the metadata that sent them.
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1. deanalevitt ◴[07 Mar 19 05:52 UTC] No.19325841[source]▶
Exactly. I removed FB from my mobile devices for just this reason.
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2. HenryKissinger ◴[07 Mar 19 05:59 UTC] No.19325866[source]▶
(cries in Samsung)
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3. propogandist ◴[07 Mar 19 06:09 UTC] No.19325912[source]▶
You can use adb to uninstall apps like FB and Chrome in a few minutes, with your phone connected to a computer

https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatwa...

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4. dbdjfjrjvebd ◴[07 Mar 19 06:30 UTC] No.19325981{3}[source]▶
> This works because applications truly aren’t being fully uninstalled from the device, they are just being uninstalled for the current user
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5. zamalek ◴[07 Mar 19 06:32 UTC] No.19325989[source]▶
Disable it in app settings, that effectively uninstalls it.
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7. throwmeback ◴[07 Mar 19 09:29 UTC] No.19326688{3}[source]▶
I used this method on my friends'/family phones where I can't just flash an AOSP-based ROM. That will change now that I found out about debloating through ADB.
8. pjc50 ◴[07 Mar 19 10:32 UTC] No.19326978{4}[source]▶
If it's not running and doesn't send you notifications or demand updates, do you care all that much?
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9. dbdjfjrjvebd ◴[07 Mar 19 12:26 UTC] No.19327438{5}[source]▶
In many ways no. NB the same can be achieved by disabling the App in settings?

There is the principal of who owns the device... But that is a slightly different topic.

10. JohnFen ◴[07 Mar 19 18:42 UTC] No.19330806{3}[source]▶
Disabling is better than nothing, but it's no substitute for actually uninstalling.