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Re: Show HN: Facebook Unlike

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Post by rcush »

I like the idea. I'm not sure how long Facebook will allow it to operate for, but it's a good tool for those of us conscious about the amount of data shared on social networks.

However, I have two issues:

The site is claiming that the likes are used to populate advertising on Facebook. Surely a better way to prevent that is through http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&section=social&... rather than removing likes? Perhaps I'm being misled by Facebook, but I have presumed that by toggling the option on the linked page to "no one" I would not have my data used to populate advertising in that way.

A second issue is the access the site is asking for; it is significantly too much. Again, I'm not overly familiar with Facebook so perhaps I'm incorrect here, but surely the site only needs fairly restricted access? Maybe the API doesn't allow such fine-tuning, but being allowed to post on my timeline seems excessive.

Re: Show HN: Facebook Unlike

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Post by sumzup »

tchae wrote: post #16
csallen wrote: post #12

Why do people make sites like this where you're required to give them access to tons of your information before they even tell you what they do? The home page does a poor job explaining why I should use this to unlike pages over, say, logging into Facebook and unliking pages on my own.

you're not required to sign up?? it's just iframe like buttons... and have you ever tried unliking pages in mass on FB itself?

It's pretty easy to do with Graph Search, for what it's worth (yes, I realize most people don't have it yet). Just search for "Pages I have liked".

Re: Show HN: Facebook Unlike

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Post by suckaplease »

bpatrianakos wrote: post #30
geuis wrote: post #28

I HIGHLY recommend no one else use this site without more followup from the developer I don't like this. Not for what it claims to do, but because it doesn't clearly say what it does do. "Facebook Unlike". I get that, good name. When I go to the site, I understand I have to sign in with Facebook. That's fine. Problems: 1) Why does your app require permission to write to my page? You only need permissions to read all…

Actually some of what you said is incorrect. 1) You're probably right 2) Me and others I know have used this and recognize all our likes. There are cases where you accidentally or unknowingly like something which may explain the Likes you claim to never have liked. I've had my FB account since 2006. I don't know about you or others but there's bound to be some likes you don't remember if you've been a member long eno…

1) The social auth tool we're using only allows you to have one set of permissions, so we're using the default set for our overall application. If you see my earlier comment I did update it to be a little less ambitious on the permissions.

2) The list of likes comes directly from FB

3) There is an endpoint provided by the Facebook Open Graph to delete a like. However, you have to be whitelisted by FB in order to call that endpoint.

4) Yeah, the thought was that you'd come here to unlike pages. If you made a mistake in unliking a page that you want to continue supporting you can go back there on FB and re-like it. The reason we removed the button after the action is that it's crazy confusing to explain to someone how to unlike a page using the default FB like implementation (the only implementation) and I'm sure that's by design. If the button stuck around after the action, I'm sure that there would be a lot of unintended re-likes.

Thanks, we're trying! Our goal is to help consumers voice their complaints to large companies (that aren't always listening too well). Please give us more feedback!

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