<![CDATA[Meta itself helped me to quit their products.]]>I am not a heavy user of meta apps, but still i forced to use one or two meta apps daily for educational and work related communication. Also instagram was so addictive until i understood the dark pattern and toxicity in the entire platform. That was just a platform for comparison and show off, even though many users/customers uses it as a blog platform, broadcast, promotion tool or anything.

One of the harderst product to quit was whatsapp. I used it in my custom rom (lineageos) installed phone with bootlocker unlocked. Recently i started to get a popup saying "please use the official app", no matter i downloaded it from anywhere (playstore, official website, apkmirror, aurora store). I know they detected that my phone is modified and installed a custom rom, they are intentionally doing this to millions of users. So, finally trying all the way to fix it, meta itself forced me to quit. I used one of my family members phone to just login and instantly deleted my account. Btw, nowadays i feel so peace. The most exciting thing is that, 2 of my friends actually contacted me via telegram and phone call to ask what happened. So, atleast 2 people noticed my sudden disappearing and cared to ask why!

The case of instagram is not like this, but random account restriction and "are you human ?" popups. Really meta can't figure out are we humans or not with this massive of data they collect? After they forced me to add my phone number to account and the refusal led to disabling of my 5th account, i choose to quit again.

Figuring out fediverse platforms like pixelfed, mastodon, lemmy showed me a different world that moves slowly and gives peace of mind.

]]>https://citiverse.it/topic/6b322d09-1c1a-4c8c-bf22-e15f50ce76b4/meta-itself-helped-me-to-quit-their-products.RSS for NodeTue, 04 Aug 2026 05:47:19 GMTFri, 24 Jul 2026 01:24:46 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Meta itself helped me to quit their products. on Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:18:41 GMT]]>Because you are still using it. You are still participating, it's still triggering thier api. Its still views.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/27873912https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/27873912Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:18:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meta itself helped me to quit their products. on Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:57:23 GMT]]>How do you reckon it supports Instagram to use Imginn to access the content on Instagram?

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://feddit.dk/comment/21569432https://citiverse.it/post/https://feddit.dk/comment/21569432Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:57:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meta itself helped me to quit their products. on Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:20:17 GMT]]>I have a binary trust scheme: services I control (meaning: self-host) and those I don't (hosted by other people).

While Google is notorious, I have no evidence that Proton is any better. Now they move their hosting to Germany and Norway. They could be all a honeypot for what I know.

If I finally ditch Google it will all be back to mice and a pumpkin (self-host) for me.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/27854445https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/27854445Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:20:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meta itself helped me to quit their products. on Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:08:20 GMT]]>It still supports them because you still go there. I avoid it all together.

I boycott bands or vendors that use it and am pretty vocal about it.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/27837403https://citiverse.it/post/https://lemmy.zip/comment/27837403Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:08:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Meta itself helped me to quit their products. on Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:49:45 GMT]]>If you want to check up on specific accounts on instagram that you like to follow, you can access their content on imginn.com. It doesn’t always work, but it’s fine for entertainment purposes and keeping up with favourite musicians and what not every now and then.

]]>https://citiverse.it/post/https://feddit.dk/comment/21533031https://citiverse.it/post/https://feddit.dk/comment/21533031Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:49:45 GMT