Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms

Post by noisy_boy » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 4:16 AM UTC

chii wrote: post #10

noisy_boy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sad state of affairs. One alternative could be to create a dummy account for this purpose, turn-off every notification, add no friends and use it only for the purpose of accessing pages for businesses (I don't use Facebook at all personally but the way things are going, I may have to resort to such shenanigans).

creating a dummy account might alleviate the immediate issue, but it doesn't really fix the root cause of the problem - which is that the restaurant thinks it's ok to only post on facebook, and assume everyone has access.

Post by Rebelgecko » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 4:34 AM UTC

joecot wrote: post #11

boomboomsubban wrote: post #2

How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell. Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will…

> How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? Pretty hard. There are some extensions (FB Purity being the most popular), but they focus on trying to modify the facebook site in your browser, and they break often. There used to be more 3rd party android apps but FB locked their APIs down more. And even the FB app linked on this Github directory, Frost, does not work, as FB will not al…

Post by beefee » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 5:05 AM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #3

The very first thing I tried was Invidious > As of September 1st 2020, invidio.us has closed down. > To see this content, please select another instance, Ok, I'll try the first alternative in their list, inv.cthd.icu > Could not get channel info. Ok, second one, invidious-us.kavin.rocks ? > Could not get channel info. Hmmm, maybe it's something to do with the sample channel, Troy Hunt? I'll try a known good channel,…

Post by artificialLimbs » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 5:34 AM UTC

boomboomsubban wrote: post #2

How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? I deactivated my account years ago, and my only interaction is checking things like local restaurants and groups to see their schedules or other such public information and it's hell. Say I want to eat out on Christmas eve. Around 80% of local restaurants will only publicly say if they're open on a Facebook post, and like half of those will…

Post by spacebeer » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 5:50 AM UTC

BbzzbB wrote: post #7

noisy_boy wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sad state of affairs. One alternative could be to create a dummy account for this purpose, turn-off every notification, add no friends and use it only for the purpose of accessing pages for businesses (I don't use Facebook at all personally but the way things are going, I may have to resort to such shenanigans).

Out of curiosity, can Facebook do something more with a dummy account presumably linked to you IP than they can with any other unregistered person tracked over Facebook Connects, friend's contact syncs, etc.?