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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...?
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…
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.
I mean, that's a pretty high bar to set for consent. But clearly yours wasn't quite enthusiastic enough...
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I can see why FB took down this extension. I tried it and it basically starts unfollowing everything without my consent.
You mean you installed something that advertises to unfollow everything on your behalf, you went through a whole checklist to unpack it and coax chrome into loading it from local, and then you somehow consider it to not have your consent? I mean, that's a pretty high bar to set for consent. But clearly yours wasn't quite enthusiastic enough ...
Facebook not only took down the extension but banned the personal Facebook account of Louis Barclay and ordered that he never make any tool that interacts with Facebook, which he felt was heavy handed but as a UK resident felt unable to seek legal redress as in the UK if one loses one is liable for the opponents court costs.
Here is the Slate article by Louis Barclay.
https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...
and an opinion by Cory Doctorow on the utility of Unfollow Everything, the study and heavy handedness as a tendency of Facebooks to squash research it doesn't like.
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Sounds like it does just what it says. If you don't want to unfollow everything, why would you install an "Unfollow Everything" extension...?
Shared machines, trolling, tricking someone to install this. At least ask on the first run what is going to happen
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You mean you installed something that advertises to unfollow everything on your behalf, you went through a whole checklist to unpack it and coax chrome into loading it from local, and then you somehow consider it to not have your consent? I mean, that's a pretty high bar to set for consent. But clearly yours wasn't quite enthusiastic enough ...
It was on a Chrome store before, it is just bad etiquette to do something without asking once
Honestly, just delete your Facebook. It’s a better solution and it has the benefit of being officially supported.
Honestly, just delete your Facebook. It’s a better solution and it has the benefit of being officially supported.