Word has it that face scanning will soon be necessary to do anything at all on FB and IG (including deleting your account) so I’m in the process of taking care of that business now and trying to encourage the few friends I’m still in touch with to do the same.
Unfortunately, without an account you can’t access content, and there are still numerous local businesses and organizations posting at FB and IG and I can’t really expect that to change anytime soon. But it would definitely help sell the idea of giving them up if I can offer another way of seeing posts on those sites.
With IG, there is https://imginn.com/ which I’ve been using for a time, it seems to work well enough to show an account’s IG posts.
What I really need is something like that for FB. I don’t really need to see posts from individual accounts as I don’t even think my friends post on FB anymore; I really just want to be able to see “Liked Pages” as those are often regional businesses and communities. Being able to see groups would also be helpful but those often require special permission even when you do have an FB account so I don’t expect much there.
Thanx
I use either MeTube or https://mollygram.com/ to view IG reels my wife and friends send me. Doesn’t have full browsing though, and might not help with seeing business hours. I tend to just not do business with any place that requires an account to see their info.
https://www.pixnoy.com/ is a good way to browse public Instagram accounts.
A bit of pain but you can still see FB, you have to hit the [x] in the top right of the login nag then it will let you scroll through several photos/posts before popping up again (wont work on the main feed page just photos/posts, not about liked pages). When it does pop up again it wont have the [x] so click the browsers refresh and the [x] will show up again but FB will still be on the same photo/post. Rinse, repeat.
More businesses need to hear people say “I don’t use Meta products “ so that they consider making critical information available elsewhere. And businesses that still use Twitter should be shunned.
This… too many small businesses use facebook as their “webpage.” I’m not creating an account, blank or otherwise, to view your hours… I probably just won’t go.
If a business only has some shitty Instagram or Facebook page or wants to only be contactable via WhatsApp then they don’t deserve my fucking business.
You obviously don’t live in a rural area where almost all businesses do exactly this, minus the WhatsApp part. If I had that attitude, I’d only have Walmart and nobody should live like that.
There is a ublock filter you can add to block the login page to appear if that’s what you are looking for.
Can’t add it right now, but let me know if you can’t find it and I will add it
just delete your photos & posts and leave it idle…?
Did you read the post?
This is what I did years ago. No apps. Just a sandboxed FB browser tab so I can check the local marketplace and community groups.
Yeah, school and city use Facebook for everything so I begrudgingly keep an empty account.
Except when you log in and it tracks you across the web and when you interact with it. You’re basically always feeding the machine.
What you’re looking for is called an “Alternative frontend”. I’m not aware of a working one for Facebook but it might be worth searching around!
Thanks for the info, I’ll keep an eye out. Knowing the term will be very helpful so thank you for that.
Is it not easier to ask the regional businesses if they have website/rss/newsletters? And point out meta are gonna be forcing you to compromise your privacy. Places will soon look at when their userbases shrink.
I heard about https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram but never used it
Word has it that face scanning will soon be necessary to do anything at all on FB and IG (including deleting your account)
Any sources or links to share on this? If this is true it’d be worth it to send to friends and family who still have an account.
Not that this has ever stopped them before, but I would be interested on their attempt at remaining compliant with data protection laws as I feel like locking GDPR right to be forgotten behind a facial ID scan would be seen as an unneeded blocker in order to delete your account.
Last year, I set up an IG account to just view a family member’s posts. It required a photo of me. At first I was said, “fuck no”, but, just to see what would happen, I uploaded an image of some random face. I think it might have even been from a cartoon. It worked.
Go try to create a new FB account, that’s the source because they already do require a face scan to create a new account.
I mean because of friends and family where that is my only contact information I doubt I will ever drop facebook. I just don’t interact with it much. its like when im not looking for work I barely interact with linkedin.
I just made a dummy account. No posts no follows. I only use for occasional links people send me.
I tried and couldn’t. It immediately flagged my empty account with no activity for “violating TOS” and required a face scan to reactivate it.
I e-mailed IG support saying hey I made a new account and you insta blocked me. I think they manually unlocked me and I’ve been using my dummy account since.
I made my Instagram account several years ago. I think I posted a couple photos at the beginning, now that I’m thinking of it.
Try generating 2-3 random AI images and posting them. Just to establish the account at the beginning.It also makes sense that they’re more strict now. It may not work anyway.
I did the same thing but if you read the post that’s not what I’m asking for.
I understand what you were asking for. People ask for what they imagine. What they can imagine isn’t always what they want. Sometimes an entirely different idea can work better than they imagined.
By what you wrote, you want to be able to access Facebook and Instagram anonymously. The essayist most reliable way to do that is with a disposable account. Work around sites aren’t all that reliable. They work for a time then get swatted down, or limited in some way.
I’m not aware of a workaround for Facebook. I also use a second pseudonymous account for accessing information shared in groups and on business pages.
I need Facebook for my volunteering gig, sadly. I disabled my own profile over 2 years ago now and made a fake profile which only follows the information I need on there and nothing else. I only use it in one specific browser with an extremely good Facebook specific ad blocker.
