The creator of the Facebook unfollow tool banned for life
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Krizby
Yeah I have not used FB for years, otherwise this "unfollow everything" extension seems neat as I was tired of seeing friends posting BS fishing for likes o_O
emperorsfist
Because why have nice things, eh?
Kaarme
It would do Facebook good to slap it with a billion dollar fine.
Loobyluggs
This does not make any sense.
Can you NOT unfollow people using the tools that FB give you?
Krizby
not when you have thousands of fake friends
Valken
I didn't even know such an extension existed! There needs to be a nuke option to un-everything!
Loobyluggs
Hmmm...explain? You mean to say FB follows people for you without your knowledge?
Krizby
Nah lots of people just like to add unknown people to their friend list for god knows what reason
ViperAnaf
Zuckerberg is the digital Hitler of our time?
Loobyluggs
I think you meant to add a smiley face to that comment 😀
I would say he is more...the nightmare of George Orwell, John Wyndham and Isaac Asimov.
The real problem is this: he actually likes that comparison.
Aztec2Step
I stopped using farcebook about 6 years ago and, providing they don't lie about it, my account should have been deleted 2 years ago. If I had known about this tool/if it had existed at the time, I might still have an account.
Ah well, no great loss!
anticupidon
And so it came to pass that modem day digital heroes are the new "villains", because money, abuse of power and control.
And FYI, the "You are zucked" is a thing.
Loobyluggs
So let me get this straight, then. FB has banned someone for creating a tool that allows you to do the very same thing that you normally would be able to do, just with less clicking?
Krizby
Yup, basically an "ignore all" tool LOL
Loobyluggs
And Google capitulated???
That is scary. That is very scary indeed. Why would Google agree to this?
alanm
Facebook is the biggest competitor to google for ad revenue. Plus many see the extension as a useful tool.
p.s. google has removed the extension.
Krizby
Have you ever wonder why something you google show up as ads in FB 🙄, they are all colluding together hahaha
AlmondMan
I sort of did this manually - I started unfollowing everything that wasn't relevant, blocking all ads posts and unfollowing all pages that I "Liked" - unfollowed people who just posted nonsense, unfriended those who I never talked to. Then facebook was just... pretty much empty and there was no point in going there.
I still use it for eventhandling for my D&D group and party invites and such. It is just easier this way to get in touch with people in an age where people long since either stopped having personal email adresses, changed phone number constantly, and just in general became harder to get in touch with.
Loobyluggs
That is the thing that scares me - Google removed the tool.
Why do I get the feeling there is some legal nonsense in the EULA from Google regarding creating a tool like this...I need to do some digging in the 9,000 page document they get you to agree to for developers.
To the Batcave!
Embra
I have heard one can never actually delete a created account. It just goes dormant.
Is this true?
