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Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by mediocregopher »

mnd999 wrote: post #17

Honestly, just delete your Facebook. It’s a better solution and it has the benefit of being officially supported.

I deleted my FB probably 10 years ago and never looked back, but most people I know who still have it act like it's some vital part of life which can't be left behind. It's integrated into how people interact with the other people in their life so much they can't get rid of it.

It's not so much an addiction as a lifestyle. Telling most people to quit their FB is like telling folks in the US to sell their car and never use a personal vehicle again... they're whole life is structured around that fundamental fact, they can't just leave it behind.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by vorpalhex »

mnd999 wrote: post #17

Honestly, just delete your Facebook. It’s a better solution and it has the benefit of being officially supported.

There are lots of weird edge cases where your theoretically-dead Facebook account gets resurrected..

When I deleted mine the second go around I manually deleted and unfollowed everything just in case it comes back. Wish I had known about this extension.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by Jugurtha »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #36

For some reason an image of Barbra Streisand just popped up in my head.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

First paragraph:

>The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to it in 2003.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by ugjka »

ziml77 wrote: post #40
ugjka wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was on a Chrome store before, it is just bad etiquette to do something without asking once

I can't understand why you're getting downvoted so hard that your first comment is dead now. I'm with you, I don't expect the act of installing an extension to perform destructive actions. At the very least I would have thought you would need to click the toolbar button. Optimally it would display the full list of everything it's about to unfollow and have you confirm you're okay with that.

Flagged by freedom haters...

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by cute_boi »

machiaweliczny wrote: post #30

Can't this be implemented as browser automation? Why FB can block it?

it can be implemented by FB is just saying they block extension for security and privacy thing. They are just being dictator and they can flow any amount of money to ban such extension or use legal powers.

And if you read the story you will know why author of extension was helpless.

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-every...

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by cute_boi »

ugjka wrote: post #24
Out_of_Characte wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On chrome it asks you to install "Unfollow Everything" That's asking once.

Do you understand the difference between installing software and executing software? Imagine a version of DD that wipes your disk just by installing it; that's borderline malware...

According to this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unfollow-everyone-...

It explicitly says: "

Click "Add to chrome", Log in to your facebook account, click the extension and choose the unfollow option. Wait for a few minutes till the processing completes.

Our key feature: 1. Instant removal of all friends, pages and groups with one click. "

So where is the problem? What should people understand? Why is dd even here. And installing software always do many thing that are not intended by user so people shouldn't install software if they don't know.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by lostlogin »

deepnet wrote: post #15

Louis Barclay the extension author felt that unfollowing everything improved his Facebook experience and helped him break his Facebook addiction. Louis wrote this extension so other people could try this and enlisted a Swiss University to conduct a study to see if this improved user satisfaction with Facebook. Facebook not only took down the extension but banned the personal Facebook account of Louis Barclay and orde…

> Louis Barclay the extension author felt that unfollowing everything improved his Facebook experience and helped him break his Facebook addiction.

Addiction broken.

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by ugjka »

cute_boi wrote: post #47
ugjka wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you understand the difference between installing software and executing software? Imagine a version of DD that wipes your disk just by installing it; that's borderline malware...

According to this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unfollow-everyone-... It explicitly says: " Click "Add to chrome", Log in to your facebook account, click the extension and choose the unfollow option. Wait for a few minutes till the processing completes. Our key feature: 1. Instant removal of all friends, pages and groups with one click. " So where is the problem? What should people understand? Why is dd…

There was no one click

Re: Mirror Links for "Unfollow Everything"

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Post by matheusmoreira »

deepnet wrote: post #15

Louis Barclay the extension author felt that unfollowing everything improved his Facebook experience and helped him break his Facebook addiction. Louis wrote this extension so other people could try this and enlisted a Swiss University to conduct a study to see if this improved user satisfaction with Facebook. Facebook not only took down the extension but banned the personal Facebook account of Louis Barclay and orde…

> helped him break his Facebook addiction

Nice! It's awesome that he said this. I always comment on the addictive nature of these platforms and games. Really nice to see these concepts making their way to a wider audience.

Facebook wants their platform to be addictive. That's what engagement means: the rat pressed all the right buttons when provided with the proper stimuli. They want people looking at and interacting with the feeds as long as possible so they can serve as many ads as possible.

They need to be held accountable for deliberately causing damage to people's mental health.

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