Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by NabiDev » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 7:55 AM UTC

Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"
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Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by testdrive5 » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 8:34 AM UTC

Quoting a fellow HNer:

I recommend avoiding all browser extensions unless they come from well-known developers (eg 1Password) and they’re downloaded and installed through official channels. Browser extensions have a lot of access to your browsing activity and can phone home as well. One of the reasons this extension was sent a C&D was that it was sending some data home to the author’s server. That might be what the install instructions above are hinting at with the warning to examine the JS and remove any phone-home code. The original author defended the data collection as just enough to make sure the plug-in was working, except for study participants who apparently submitted much more information through the plug-in. Either way, I wouldn’t rush to install a plug-in that was caught sending any of my social media data to a 3rd-party server. I certainly would not install a browser extension from an unknown 3rd-party website just to spite Facebook, regardless the claimed origin of the code.

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804308

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by hetspookjee » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 9:02 AM UTC

testdrive5 wrote: post #2

Quoting a fellow HNer: I recommend avoiding all browser extensions unless they come from well-known developers (eg 1Password) and they’re downloaded and installed through official channels. Browser extensions have a lot of access to your browsing activity and can phone home as well. One of the reasons this extension was sent a C&D was that it was sending some data home to the author’s server. That might be what the i…

Thanks for the link as the thread is rather hilarious with the Dropbox v2 comment.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by AshamedCaptain » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 9:32 AM UTC

This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension?

Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by lelandfe » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 9:53 AM UTC

testdrive5 wrote: post #2

Quoting a fellow HNer: I recommend avoiding all browser extensions unless they come from well-known developers (eg 1Password) and they’re downloaded and installed through official channels. Browser extensions have a lot of access to your browsing activity and can phone home as well. One of the reasons this extension was sent a C&D was that it was sending some data home to the author’s server. That might be what the i…

> One of the reasons this extension was sent a C&D was that it was sending some data home to the author’s server

I think that this is incorrect.

The C&D included that as an example of banned things - beneath the actual list of what the extension had done wrong.

Per the wording, what they had done wrong was automation of actions, and unlicensed use of trademarks.

The letter: https://louisbarclay.notion.site/Unfollow-Everything-cease-a...

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by ugjka » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:09 AM UTC

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #4

This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension? Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.

I can see why FB took down this extension. I tried it and it basically starts unfollowing everything without my consent.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by thinkingemote » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:13 AM UTC

ugjka wrote: post #6

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #4

This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension? Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.

I can see why FB took down this extension. I tried it and it basically starts unfollowing everything without my consent.

Is this satire?

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by jfk13 » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:13 AM UTC

ugjka wrote: post #6

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #4

This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension? Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.

I can see why FB took down this extension. I tried it and it basically starts unfollowing everything without my consent.

Sounds like it does just what it says. If you don't want to unfollow everything, why would you install an "Unfollow Everything" extension...?

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by Raed667 » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:14 AM UTC

ugjka wrote: post #6

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #4

This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension? Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.

I can see why FB took down this extension. I tried it and it basically starts unfollowing everything without my consent.

If this is a joke. It went over my head.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by freemint » Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 10:16 AM UTC

AshamedCaptain wrote: post #4

This is yet again the same thing as when youtube-dl was being "mirrored" not long ago. What is the point of mirroring this extension? Facebook only needs to change ONE SINGLE LETTER in their website and it will immediately make all the "mirrors" of this extension useless.

It is a form of public protest and backslash.