Ive rawdogged it with my real name, and a bare email (no alias), no vpn, bone stock chrome, and they still need a video selfie from me. im not comfortable with that (though i might cave eventually, i need to look at cheap shitboxes, dont know of any oother sites like that)
thanks all
don’t. use local classifieds like kijiji
Video selfie… Lol :) People who agree to this must be desperate to use Facebook.
Step 1: Don’t sign up for Facebook
I haven’t had Facebook in years, but I’ll admit the marketplace is pretty damn good for finding secondhand deals. Luckily (unluckily) my wife doesn’t give two shits about being spied on so I browse it from her phone
Marketplace was fantastic for buying and selling all sorts of stuff for years, but it is now plagued with fake listings and scams and all kinds of undesirable shit now. The scammers seem to have no problem whatsoever cranking out new accounts on the regular, and Facebook doesn’t seem to give a shit. Any time I report any of the scam listings I get a response from FB about 3 weeks later saying they did nothing wrong, so they took no action. Fuck Facebook.
It must be location dependent, but our local marketplace is a goldmine (it also might just be an FB group, not sure where all that’s at these days). Every now and again you get some dufus trying to pull some shady shit, but this is a small town where most everyone knows each other, and people are pretty quick to call it out.
and what else do I use? Craigslist dead as he’ll, autotrader and the like have comparitively nice cars
I recommend autotempest as it searches multiple sites.
it searches what autotrader, eBay, Craigslist, and cars.com
all those are either empty or have relatively nice car
I want that 3k dollar civic with a mild oil leak
The problem is what you’re looking for is far less common than it used to be.
The bottom has dropped out of the market. Cars under a certain value are usually scrapped and/or parted out. You will find them occasionally but it’s getting rare. In my local area I find that Craigslist has the best selection of beaters, but it’s still difficult to find anything worthwhile under $4000.
Might be time to consider a motorcycle, scooter, or e-bike of you can make it work
Edit: one more thing. There are ways to browse FB marketplace without an account.
- absolutely want to get a motorcycle soon (I like anything that burns dino juice basically)
and how? no account?
If you’re looking for cheap cars, check if your state/city/area has a govenment auction site. In minnesota we have MNBid and you can usually pick up impounded vehicles or old govenment fleet vehicles for dirt cheap.
Have you tried going to some of those lower end local used car lots? Before cl and fb we used to look through the newspaper and go to used car lots. I know you’ll pay a little more than from a private seller unless you haggle, but at least there’s a selection. No Facebook required.
What are shitboxes?
Inexpensive cars
video selfie
Wtf
Instagram wanted that to re-activate my account after they froze it due to “inactivity” because I hadn’t logged into it in a couple of months.
I noped out and abandoned it (because I couldn’t even delete it without first going through the privacy invision to reactivate it and login…)
I’ve had two cases where phishers have tried to create an account to impersonate my aunt. My guess this is an attempt to curtail these phishing schemes.
A photo of my balls would help in that case too but it doesn’t men I want to give it to them.
lowkey rather my balls than my face
There are options for additional checks they could explore that are less creepy.
- Make someone pay a one time charge. This might not give you the full details but the transaction gives more data, and shows someone is willing to back up their request for access with a paper trail which has fraud protection laws.
- Third party verification services. Like your bank, who already have details about you. There just needs to be a way for them to vouch for you. Credit reporting agencies probably already do this, but I kinda think this is almost creepier than giving Facebook a video.
- Verifying the email attached to your account is a good first step.
In the meantime I think knowing the password should at least get you logged in enough for account maintenance. You should be able to set the entire account private and take it offline with limited toggles. Restoring full access would require the additional verification.
Run, run far away and forget you ever heard of fb!!
The more this invasive behavior becomes the norm, the worse off ALL of us will be.
That reminds me: I need to delete my Facebook account.
Don’t forget to change all your personal details and pictures first.
They may never delete anything, but as long as they think you take them seriously, they have to accept change.
they still need a video selfie from me
Holy shit the normie web really has gotten that bad?
Enjoy your cattle pen!
Don’t! It’s fucking worthless.
make a list of everyone that you would want to keep in touch with on facebook. then keep in touch with them directly.
zero. I need marketplace for the cheap shitboxes
He only wants it for marketplace. I can sympathise, that’s where all the really good awful car deals are, and cheap tools that I don’t need, but really want
It sounds like you know but you don’t want to do it.
New rules stipulate the butthole must be visible for your privacy and security.
Make a video selfie but wear a mask or use a filter to obscure your true face. Maybe use AI, but be sure to strip the metadata.
Just give up. It is not worth it, anyway.
I need to buy a car tho
Go down to the FB headquarters and give them your pinky finger.
This actually made me LOL
