Today there will be a super useful article about VKontakte. I will teach you how to view information on a user's page if he has deleted his page. This can be very necessary when you need to find out contact information or look at something on the wall, etc., but you no longer have access.
I will only say that this will be possible to do if the user has not changed the privacy settings (https://vk.com/settings?act=privacy) and has the option “who can see my page on the Internet ” - EVERYONE.
Now, for example, let’s select a deleted VKontakte page from the list of friends.
This is what it looks like when you click on it:
As you can see, we cannot view any information from it. But don't get pumped up. YANDEX and GOOGLE CACHE will come to the rescue
CASH
is a saved copy of a page on the Internet as of any reporting date.
Those. if information is deleted from the site, it will be stored in the cache for some time and you will be able to retrieve it from there.
I’ll say right away that Google works faster and better in this regard, since its indexing speed is much higher than that of Yandex.
So, in order to view the saved copy of the desired VKontakte page, copy the link to it and paste it into the Yandex and Google search window. The required page should appear as the first link in the search results.
This is what it looks like in Yandex:
Pay attention to where the arrow points in the screenshot above.
Click on the “saved copy” button and you will be taken to a page with a saved copy of the page. In this case, our attempt was not successful, because, as I already said, Yandex works slowly and did not have time to leave the information we needed in the cache:
But don’t despair, there is still old Google, and it doesn’t let you down. The algorithm of actions is the same. Paste the link to the VK page into the GOOGLE
. It should find and provide the page we need as the first link.
Now click on the small arrow and select “ saved copy”
».
Now we will get into Google's cache. And here everything is fine - the saved copy of the page as of January 30, 2015 is shown.
Here's what it looks like:
Here you can see all the necessary information
- from contacts to photos. Now you know how to view information from deleted and closed VKontakte pages.
By the way, this function is available not only in Yandex and Google, so you can try other search engines
.
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I go to the person’s page, it’s empty and it says: “The user’s page has been deleted. Information is not available"
or
“The page has been deleted or has not yet been created.”
What does it mean? Who deleted the page? Why?
Why did the person delete the page?
This is his personal business. Sometimes pages are deleted in an emotional outburst, demonstratively, to prove something to someone (especially teenagers), or if some troubles happen, etc. Maybe a person just wants to take a break from VK and hasn’t found another way to do it. But very often people return to VK, restore the page or create a new one.
You can use the search - How to find a person on VKontakte to check if the person has created a new page. Of course, you need to know who to look for - that is, the person’s first and last name. But he could create a fake page (with fake data), although this is prohibited by the site rules.
Why delete the page
As mentioned above, many people simply lose interest in virtual communication, replacing it with real ones, because indeed, it is much more pleasant to see a person and talk with him than to communicate online. If there is no other way to contact, that's another question. Some are removed from VK due to their reluctance to communicate with their friends at all. But since this desire is rather impulsive, the developers have provided the possibility of account recovery. A deleted VK page is inaccessible to other users, namely, they cannot view information on it, write personal messages, or comment on posts.
Will a person be able to restore the page?
An important point is that to restore the page you need to have access to the phone number to which it is linked. However, many users are so careless that they have long since changed their number without linking the new number to the VK page, and do not even remember what number they registered the page for. Therefore, difficulties may arise when restoring the page. The person may have to restore the SIM card or, if this is not possible, send a request to restore the page (all this is discussed in the instructions at the link above).
If the page says “Page has been deleted or has not yet been created”,
this means that the restoration period has already passed, and this page will never be restored, even if its owner wants to do so.
How to contact a person if he deleted a page?
While the page is deleted, its owner cannot receive or send messages. Maybe he doesn't want you or anyone to text him right now. If he ever restores the page, then you can write to him. And if he created a new page, then you can search for this page by first name, last name, city, age, date of birth of the person and other parameters -
A page on the social network VKontakte can tell a lot about a person, especially if he actively maintains it.
On it you can find out a list of his hobbies, date of birth, look at photographs, records of interest from various groups, and much more. But if the user decides to delete his VKontakte page, all this information is hidden. A message appears on his page that this user has deleted his account, and it is no longer possible to view the information on it. But there are several ways to view a deleted VKontakte page, which we will discuss in this article. Table of contents: Please note: The tips below are relevant not only when the page is deleted at the will of the user. They also allow you to view information on pages that have been blocked by VKontakte administrators for one reason or another.
How to properly delete your page?
There is only one way - the only true and effective one. This is what you should use if you need to know how to delete a page in VK. It is simple, but the complete procedure takes seven months. But don’t be afraid, because we will reach our goal in a couple of minutes.
By scrolling to the bottom of the page, you will see the entry “Delete your page.” By clicking on it, you will see a dialog box in which you will be asked to select the reason for refusing to use the VKontakte social network. Here you need to select one of the items at your personal discretion. By the way, when selecting the “Other” item, there is no need to specify the reason.
You can also notice such an item as “Tell friends”, but, in fact, it is useless, because the posts on the wall are not displayed on the deleted page. After this, you can safely click on the “Delete page” button. After this action, you will see an image of the blocked page, as well as information that you have the opportunity to restore the page within seven months, if necessary. The date by which this can be done is also indicated.
Searching for a deleted VKontakte page in the search engine cache
Search engines store their database with information about all sites, including making backup copies of them. Anyone can use them, which allows, among other things, to view information about the page of a remote user on VKontakte.
Important: This method only works if the user has recently deleted his profile from VKontakte. If the page has been deleted for a long time, most likely a search robot visited it again and updated the saved copy.
In the following way, you can view information about a deleted VKontakte page using the Google search engine:
In the Yandex search engine, opening saved copies of VKontakte pages occurs in approximately the same way.
Please note: The social network VKontakte allows users to configure their privacy. In your personal account settings, you can configure the visibility of the page on the network. If this setting specifies that the page is visible to everyone except search sites, then it will not be possible to find saved copies of the page in Google and Yandex, since the search robot is prohibited from crawling such a page.
Causes of the problem and solutions
The cause of the failure may be:
- Error entering ID. If the autocorrect function is activated, the gadget can correct the text you type.
- Poor internet connection. Its quality is checked using the online resource “SpeedTest” and, if it shows a low connection speed, they complain to the provider. Then they repeat the request, having previously activated the “Traffic Saving” function in the settings.
- The page you are looking for is registered under a fictitious name. You should search for her by phone number.
The list of probable causes is not limited to this.
Temporary blocking
The administration of the social network practices blocking pages for violating the rules. For example, for sending spam or fictitiously increasing the number of subscribers. A banned profile is not displayed in search.
Temporary blocking is practiced for violating the rules.
The blogger himself can freeze his account for up to 1 month.
Once the blocking is removed, access to the page will be restored.
Also read: How to set your own status on Instagram
Deleting a profile
If at the end of the month the user has not unfrozen the page, it is automatically deleted. The owner can do this himself. After this, the profile becomes unavailable on the social network forever.
If the blogger registers again, the system will recognize him by phone number and other personal data, after which he will be offered as recommended.
Permanent blocking
Sometimes the blocking is unlimited and it is useless to wait for it to be lifted. Then they act like this:
- Go to the main page of the Google or Yandex search engine.
- In the query line indicate the name of the social network and the user name. For example, “Instagram T-Killah”.
- Click the “Find” button.
A link to the page you are looking for will appear in the top line of the search results. If you see an error message when you try to click on it, it means your account has been deleted. You should try to view its old version by going to the search engine using the “Saved copy” link.
Adding to the blacklist
The message “this user cannot be found” also appears if the user has blacklisted the requester. The situation can be corrected in one of the following ways:
- They contact the profile owner by phone or, for example, on Facebook, and agree to remove the blocking.
- They create a new page on a social network under a fictitious name and watch interesting content from it.
A person can be blacklisted.
It happens that both users mutually add each other to the blacklist. Then, after one of them removes the block, the other will still not be able to find the other’s page on the social network. In this case, do the following:
- In the main menu, open the “Settings” item and then “Privacy”.
- In the list under the “Linked Accounts” button, find the desired blogger and remove the block.
Viewing a deleted VKontakte page in the web archive
On the Internet, every day hundreds of sites change, are deleted, new ones appear in their place, and other similar manipulations occur. There are several services that monitor these actions, saving copies of sites and individual pages. Using such a service, you can view information that was posted on a remote VKontakte page. This is done as follows:
It is worth noting that the webarchive service does not work well with saving information about VKontakte user pages, and if the account was registered recently, there is a high probability that information about it will not be found in the service database.
How to view a deleted page in a web archive
A web archive is a special service that stores data from all pages on the Internet on its server. Even if the site ceases to exist, a copy of it will still live in this storage.
The archive also stores all versions of Internet pages. Using a calendar, you can see what a particular site looked like at different times.
Deleted pages from VK can also be found in the web archive. To do this, you must perform the following steps.
- Go to https://archive.org/.
- In the top search block, enter the address of the page you need. Copy it from the address bar of your browser by logging into your remote VK account.
Using the Internet Archive, of course, you will not be able to write a message, nor will you be able to find out when the user was online. But you can even look at his latest added posts and photos.
Page found
If the page you are looking for is saved on a web archive server, it will give you the result in the form of a calendar chart. It will mark the days on which changes were made, information was added or deleted from the VK profile.
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Select the date you need to see what the page looked like. Use the forward and back arrows to view the next or previous day, or return to the first search page and select the appropriate date in the calendar.
Page not found
It may happen that the required page was not found on the WayBackMachine website. This does not mean that you did something wrong, this often happens. It is possible that the user’s account was closed from search engines and third-party sites and therefore was not included in the archive. WayBackMachine is the most popular site, but it is not the only one of its kind. Try searching for other web archives in Yandex or Google. The page you were looking for could be saved on their servers.
Try your luck finding an archived version of the profile on these sites:
- archive.is;
- webcitation.org;
- freezepage.com;
- perma.cc.
Also, be sure to try to find a page on the Russian-language equivalent of https://web-arhive.ru/.
Reference. Web archives store all information that ends up on the Internet indiscriminately. Apparently for this reason, access to most existing services is blocked in Russia by Roskomnadzor. To work with these sites, use an anonymizer or proxy server.
Viewing a deleted VKontakte page in the browser cache
Important: This method can only be used by those users who want to see the page of a person they previously visited, but who later deleted it.
The method is based on the fact that browsers store copies of sites, which is necessary for them to load faster when necessary. If you visited a user's page some time ago, after which he deleted it, you have the opportunity to view its saved copy in the browser. This can be done in almost any browser; let’s look at the example of Opera
:
These are all ways to view information that was previously located on a remote VKontakte page.
On the main page of the archive, there is a block “Wayback Machine”. Here you need to enter the address of the remote page and press Enter.
Pay attention to the interface. There is a calendar at the top of the screen. It displays the available copies of the page. If there are several, you can view each of them. Let's try to zoom out to 2012 and see what was on my page at that time. We select the desired date on the calendar and get this result.
If the deleted page is not in the archive, you will receive a message like this.
Why delete the page
As mentioned above, many people simply lose interest in virtual communication, replacing it with real ones, because indeed, it is much more pleasant to see a person and talk with him than to communicate online. If there is no other way to contact, that's another question. Some are removed from VK due to their reluctance to communicate with their friends at all. But since this desire is rather impulsive, the developers have provided the possibility of account recovery. A deleted VK page is inaccessible to other users, namely, they cannot view information on it, write personal messages, or comment on posts.
Viewing a copy of your profile in search engines
Yandex and Google add information about all found pages on the Internet to their database. This also applies to VK accounts. The copy version changes with each database update (of course, if there are changes). This process takes several days.
If the user is very recent, there is a chance that search engines still have a saved copy of it. And we can review it.
Let's see what it looks like in Yandex.
To make the operating principle more clear, consider a copy that is guaranteed to exist.
We go to Yandex and type your account address in the search.
The same principle applies to Google.
Now let's try to view the saved copy. To do this, expand the additional menu (the triangle-shaped button is located next to the address). Here, click on "Saved Copy".
Now try the same steps for the remote page you want to see.
Search via Facebook
Instagram and Facebook have the same owner. Therefore, pages on both social networks are often synchronized. They operate in this order:
- Launch the Instagram application and log in.
- Tap the menu button in the upper right corner.
- Select the item “Interesting people”.
- Click on the Connect to Facebook line.
- Confirm the command.
Also read: Instructions for deleting an Instagram profile from an iPhone
Facebook and Instagram are connected.
The system will display a list of recommended users. There is a high probability that it contains the person you are looking for.
Another way:
- In the menu, sequentially select the items “Linked accounts”, “My profile”, “Connect Facebook”.
- Register on Facebook.
- Having launched the social network, click the Facebook button.
The system will show all friends registered on Instagram.
View Browser Cache
Every time you open a website page, your browser saves a copy of it to its history. This is done so that when you open it again, you do not have to download it again via the Internet, but instantly provide you with a ready-made copy. This significantly increases the speed of work.
If you recently visited the user's page, there is a chance that it is in the browser cache and you can view it.
Let's do this using Mozilla Firefox as an example.
Enable offline mode. To do this, open the menu, then the item “Development”, and then check the box “Work offline”.
Now in the address bar of your browser, you need to indicate the URL of the desired page and press “Enter”. If a copy exists, it will be loaded. If not, you will see an error message.
I reviewed all three methods in video format.
