Dawid Rejowski

Never managed to make a short answer for the question in title. Should I start with practical, privacy, moral, social, mental health, or personal reasons first?

Privacy 👀

2025-06-28

• The Verge: Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

2025-06-22

• The Register: Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul

2024-06-28

• The Journal: Facebook will soon use your photos, posts and other info to train its AI. You can opt out (but it’s complicated)

2024-04-11

• The Register: 96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers

2024-03-26

• TechCrunch: Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal

2024-03-08

• CBC News: Lawsuit claiming fertility-tracking app shared intimate data with Facebook greenlit as Canadian class action

2024-01-17

• The Markup: Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies
• Consumer Reports: Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

2023-06-13

• The Markup: Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook

2023-04-12

• Swedish Radio News: Facebook collects intimate customer data from over 100 European pharmacies

2023-03-02

• The Verge: BetterHelp shared customer data while promising it was private, says FTC

  Online counseling company BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission that it improperly shared customers’ sensitive data with companies like Facebook and Snapchat, even after promising to keep it private.

2022-10-13

• The Markup: “Out Of Control”: Dozens of Telehealth Startups Sent Sensitive Health Information to Big Tech Companies

2022-08-10

• The Verge: Facebook turns over mother and daughter’s chat history to police resulting in abortion charges

2022-04-28

• The Markup: Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You

2019-11-21

• 🇵🇱 Amnesty International: Inwigilacja prowadzona przez Facebooka i Google’a to bezprecedensowe zagrożenie dla praw człowieka – raport Amnesty International

Social 👥

2026-08-06

• ABC News: Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content

2025-11-06

• Reuters: Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show

2025-04-02

• Ars Technica: Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says
• Reuters: Meta CEO Zuckerberg lobbies Trump to avoid antitrust trial, WSJ reports

2025-02-08

• TechSpot: Meta used pirated books to train its AI models, and there are emails to prove it

2025-01-15

• euronews: Trump inauguration: Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to co-host meeting with Republican billionaires

2023-06-23

• How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

2014-11-14

• The Guardian: I didn’t have enough Facebook friends to prove to Airbnb I was real

Absurd 🤡

2025-01-30

• 404media: ‘Everything I Say Leaks’, Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

2016-05-25

• NBC News: Zuckerberg to Demolish $30M in Real Estate to Keep Things Private

2013-10-12

• NBC News: Mark Zuckerberg spends $30 million on four homes to ensure privacy

No date

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue

Other lists

• https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Meta
• https://deletefacebook.com/
• https://stallman.org/facebook.html

Some alternatives

• Chat: Matrix, XMPP, Signal
• Social feed: Fediverse
• News reading: RSS/Atom