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How do I get my data out of instapaper, if I don't want Pinterest using my reading history for targeting me or sharing with their data brokers?
by nroach 10y ago
How do I get my data out of instapaper, if I don't want Pinterest using my reading history for targeting me or sharing with their data brokers?
- paulcole 10y agoIsn't that the kind of question you should have an answer to before signing up for a service, knowing that it could be sold to whoever down the road?
- _quick_q 10y agoMaybe. Better late than never, though?
- greedo 10y agoBasic Internet hygiene should have instilled in most users that any data put online is immediately out of the user's control. If it's on a self-hosted site, the contents are long gone the minute you hit post. If they're on a third-party site, it'll eventually be sold to the highest bidder when the site is either acquired, or goes defunct and the scraps sold off. There is no sanitation online.
- deanishe 10y agoThere's an API, but I'd rather not have to write my own script to export the data. Which I'll be doing lickety split. Not a fan of Pinterest (the company), not one bit.
- dexterdog 10y agoIsn't that the kind of question everybody already knows the answer to?
- bthdonohue 10y agoYou can export your articles at instapaper.com/user as always, however, we will not be using Instapaper users' personal data for any type of targeting or sharing off-service.