Deleting facebook account without consenting to new EU ad policy or paying the subscription - eviltoast

Hello everyone.

A while ago I got the message on both Facebook and Instagram to either consent to viewing targeted ads or paying the subscription fee. I did neither, and it soon went away. Since yesterday though, I got it again and have no access to any part of facebook, most importantly the accounts section of the settings from where I can delete my account.

How can I delete my account without consenting or paying the fee?

Thanks in advance

  • krcr@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I am in the same situation, If you just want to delete your account, it seems accessing this url: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account does not trigger the consent message.

    If you want to access Facebook and Instagram without accepting the ads, there are some weird ways I found that kind of works:

    • For Instagram in a browser you can go to https://www.instagram.com/consent/?flow= this will go to a page that says “Sorry, this page isn’t available.” but you can then go to the homepage without triggering the consent message. (some actions like loading a story will though) Another way on mobile (tested on Firefox android) is to start from the browser and when the consent message shows up click on the 3 dots → “Open in an application” the app then open to a blank page and you can go back to home.

    • For Facebook this tricks doesn’t seem to work, but other ways seems to, like using https://mbasic.facebook.com/