<story><title>Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?</title><text>Hi HN! I want to reduce my footprint on FB, i.e. delete all posts and photos, unlike all likes, etc. I&amp;#x27;d like to keep the account active, so simply deactivating isn&amp;#x27;t the way to go (yet?)&lt;p&gt;I did some digging and there seems to be some Chrome extensions that - according to reviews - can give mixed results.&lt;p&gt;Most of what I could find - including past posts to HN - were 4 or 5 years old. So my question: is there a recent, go-to tool that you know of which can help me achieve the above? Or should I try my luck with the random years-old tutorials you can find online?&lt;p&gt;Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsbechtel</author><text>This is tangentially related to this, but apparently their mobile app now automatically downloads all the photos on your phone if you give permissions to access photos? My wife and I recently had a child, and when I opened up the app to post one single photo of our child, Facebook was showing in my newsfeed a video they made with all of my photos I had taken. This seems like a gross violation of my privacy. Is there any way to prevent this aside from deleting the app and no longer sharing photos with family and friends via FB?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mattzito</author><text>So - what you saw was automatically generated on your phone, and not uploaded to facebook.  It&amp;#x27;s just displayed on your phone in the newsfeed view, and you can opt-in to having it posted.&lt;p&gt;This happened to a friend of mine who is an ex-FBer, and he posted on FB about it, and a number of people from the FB team who worked on the mobile app piece of it confirmed that indeed no data had left his phone without him requesting that it be posted, but that they were going to make that behavior more clear in an upcoming release.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Know a good tool to purge all posts/likes/photos from Facebook?</title><text>Hi HN! I want to reduce my footprint on FB, i.e. delete all posts and photos, unlike all likes, etc. I&amp;#x27;d like to keep the account active, so simply deactivating isn&amp;#x27;t the way to go (yet?)&lt;p&gt;I did some digging and there seems to be some Chrome extensions that - according to reviews - can give mixed results.&lt;p&gt;Most of what I could find - including past posts to HN - were 4 or 5 years old. So my question: is there a recent, go-to tool that you know of which can help me achieve the above? Or should I try my luck with the random years-old tutorials you can find online?&lt;p&gt;Thanks!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>bsbechtel</author><text>This is tangentially related to this, but apparently their mobile app now automatically downloads all the photos on your phone if you give permissions to access photos? My wife and I recently had a child, and when I opened up the app to post one single photo of our child, Facebook was showing in my newsfeed a video they made with all of my photos I had taken. This seems like a gross violation of my privacy. Is there any way to prevent this aside from deleting the app and no longer sharing photos with family and friends via FB?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tharkun</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re using FB. Talking about a &amp;#x27;gross violation of privacy&amp;#x27; is almost laughable.</text></comment>