From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Fri, 7 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:   
      
   > D  writes:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Eli the Bearded wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev  wrote:   
   >>>> Indeed, so long as you block all FB's scripts and images on   
   >>>> otherwise unrelated websites. Although I don't tend to make close   
   >>>> friends so I don't need to worry about controlling their FB usage.   
   >>>   
   >>> Doesn't stop people from posting about you on FB. (Or worse, posting   
   >>> photos of you on there.)   
   >>   
   >> That's an absurd argument. In no world, in no universe can you   
   >> reasonably expect people to not talk about you, think about you, write   
   >> about you, if they so choose.   
   >>   
   >> Publishing photos and videos of you, without your consent, on the   
   >> other hand, is illegal, and can be punished severely. I have on   
   >> several occasions asked web sites to remove information about me,   
   >> sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. I found a workaround by   
   >> de-registering myself from the country I live in, and this removed my   
   >> data from a hueg nr of linked systems.   
   >>   
   >> Then I can just live as a non-registered person, and that works quite   
   >> alright to be honest.   
   >   
   > Nice hack.   
      
   Thank you! =) It does have its drawbacks of course, when it comes to   
   health care which is either expensive, or slow (I have to travel back to   
   the country I am written in), but at my age it is definitely worth it.   
      
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