Deleting Your Instagram Account? Here's How To Get Rid Of The Data Instagram Has About You

Instagram is pretty popular these days. Almost every teenager has an account on Instagram because it has become kind of mandatory among peer groups and not having one will make the person alienated from the peer group. Having an Instagram account and posting pictures on it has become a social status these days. But people are not aware of what they're actually signing up for.

Instagram is a free-to-use platform, which means that they don't make money directly but they make it indirectly with the help of advertisements. They don't show regular advertisements but they use targeted advertisements to sell products in a better and more efficient way.

To achieve this, they collect a lot of user data. They use all sorts of trackers and collect every bit of information about you. They process this data, find your likes and dislikes and search for relevant ads based on your interests. It's a huge business and a lot of money is involved in it.

But sometimes you may feel like Instagram is absorbing too much of your life moments or you might be concerned about the privacy terms of the app so you may try to get off the platform for good. But Zuckerberg doesn't make it easy for you and the account deletion page is well hidden in their support site to make it harder for you to leave the platform.

If you do delete your account, Instagram still has all of your data, your likes, interest, your contacts, followers, everything. And the second you make a new account in the future, all your previous account followers, ads and interests will pop up in your new account.

Unfortunately, there's no way to get rid of this data completely, the damage is already done because once you upload something to Instagram, it stays forever on their servers and never gets deleted.

Luckily there is some data that you can get rid of, your personalised ads info.

You can't delete this info but there's a way to falsify this info so that whatever the data they have on you is false. Here's how to do it.

Open the Instagram website on your PC on a browser with UBlock Origin Installed. UBlock Origin is used to disable trackers that Instagram sends after you. If you dont use it then whatever you do to falsify the data will be useless.

Login to your account and start watching irrelevant stuff. If you're a man, then search about stuff related to women. Maybe try searching about pregnancy Instagram pages. If you repeat this several times, the algorithm will eventually think that you're a pregnant woman even though you're a male.

That's just an example. You can do anything else that's not in your interest. You may start watching content that you dislike. This will fool the algorithm and whatever data that they have on you will be irrelevant and useless.