Quora vs Facebook

U.S. and Canada users generally must resolve disputes through binding individual arbitration and waive class actions, which limits the ability to sue in court or join group cases. There is a 30-day opt-out window, which slightly reduces the impact.

You keep ownership, but Quora gets a very broad worldwide, transferable, sublicensable license to use, modify, distribute, and promote what you post. In practice, this gives Quora wide freedom to reuse your content across its platform and partner channels.

Deleting answers or your account may not fully erase copies already shared or syndicated outside Quora. Questions may also be edited or deleted by other users or Quora, reducing your control over posted material.

Your posts, profile details, and activity can be publicly visible, indexed by search engines, and shared beyond Quora. This makes participation potentially long-lasting and discoverable by employers, acquaintances, or the public.

Quora collects browsing, device, and engagement data, including via cookies, pixels, and embedded technologies on third-party sites, to personalize and measure ads. It also says it does not honor browser Do-Not-Track signals.

The service is provided "as is," Quora disclaims many warranties, and its liability is generally capped at the amount you paid in the prior 12 months. If something goes wrong, your practical remedies may be very limited.

Depending on location, users may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object, port data, withdraw consent, and opt out of targeted advertising. These rights are clearly listed with contact methods for making requests.

Quora provides settings to manage profile discoverability, search indexing, messages, comments, and notifications, and account deletion removes content from public visibility. This gives users more practical control than many social platforms.

Users can opt out of having their answers, posts, and comments used for large language model training. This is a notable user-protective control that many content platforms do not clearly offer.

Quora keeps personal information while you have a relationship with it and then for unspecified periods for audit, legal, and claims purposes. Because no concrete time limits are given, data may persist long after account use ends.

Quora may add, remove, or change features without notice and may suspend or terminate accounts for any reason. This gives the company broad unilateral control over access and service stability.

Quora says it does not sell personal information to third parties, which is a meaningful privacy commitment compared with many ad-supported platforms. This does not eliminate targeted advertising or other sharing, but it narrows one risk.

Meta collects a very broad range of data, including activity, device details, contacts, location, cookies, and partner data, even in some cases without an account. In practice, using Facebook can involve tracking across devices, services, and third-party sites.

Your personal data is used to target and measure ads on and off Meta products. This means your behavior and inferred interests help shape advertising across Facebook's ecosystem.

You keep ownership of your posts, photos, and videos, but grant Meta a worldwide, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free license to use and modify them for service operation. This is a broad permission that continues until content is fully deleted.

Meta can use your name, profile photo, and ad-related actions next to sponsored content without paying you. Your social activity may therefore be used to endorse ads to others who can view that activity.

Public posts and profile information can be copied, reshared, downloaded, or indexed off-platform, including by search engines and third parties. Once something is public, practical control over it can be hard to regain.

Apps and websites connected through Facebook Login or integrations may access non-public information, and may retain data you already shared even after access expires. That creates ongoing privacy exposure outside Meta's direct control.

Facebook is provided 'as is' and Meta disclaims warranties while limiting liability for indirect and consequential damages as far as law allows. If the service causes losses or disruptions, user remedies may be narrow.

The policy expressly provides rights to access, correct, download, port, erase, object, and complain to a regulator. These are meaningful user protections, especially in regions covered by data protection law.

Consumer disputes are generally governed by the law of your home country and can be brought in competent local courts. This is more user-friendly than mandatory arbitration or exclusive foreign forum clauses for consumers.

Deleting content or an account is not immediate: primary deletion may take up to 90 days, with up to another 90 days for backups, and some data may be kept longer for legal or safety reasons. Users should not expect instant erasure.

Meta says it does not sell your personal data to advertisers or share direct identifiers like your name or email without specific permission. That reduces one common privacy risk, though substantial ad profiling and reporting still occur.

Meta says it will usually give at least 30 days' notice before material terms changes take effect. That gives users some time to review changes and decide whether to keep using the service.