[eric4smith]

Hard pass.

The way how they messed up their video offering is a damned shame.

Plus... why would i want to put my stuff into Facebook's stratospheric walled garden, where if I need to pull it back out later on, its almost impossible???

[reaperducer]

where if I need to pull it back out later on, its almost impossible???

Or, in my wife's case, actually impossible.

She's tried repeatedly for almost a year to download "her" data from Facebook. All she gets is a 4GB zip file that when uncompressed has a bunch of mostly empty folders and a 3.5GB "facebook_754893.zip.enc" file. By the filename, I guess it's an encrypted zip file, but nothing will open it. Searching the interwebs shows lots of people with the same problem, but no solutions.

If she was in the EU, she'd raise a stink. But being American, she's S.O.L.

[YetAnotherNick]

Assuming she would have actually got the data to open, what would you have done with that data? I don't think any service accepts facebook data and convert it into their account. And to me facebook seems like a at the moment conversation platform rather than something I would care to archive or look back into.

Genuinely asking the reason people value downloading their fb data so much.

[reaperducer]

Assuming she would have actually got the data to open, what would you have done with that data?

It's a decade's worth of photographs, so she would have saved it to her computer.

[telesilla]

Do we need a volunteer service where Europeans can take over ownership of an account and shut it down / export data?