Typical Nazi book move.

Embra:

I have heard one can never actually delete a created account. It just goes dormant. Is this true?

Read your terms and conditions

Go ahead Facebook and ban him. Then wait for the US Government to force you to adopt a similar tool. By banning him and his tool you are just putting the spotlight on yourself. How dumb can you get.

Loobyluggs:

And Google capitulated??? That is scary. That is very scary indeed. Why would Google agree to this?

That's a silly question, all these tech companies are situated in the same place, their leaders live close to each other and talk to each other regularly. They share mentality and ideology and in the past they have acted as one giant cartel, on several occasions in fact. I bet it just took a friendly phone call to Google to make it happen.

Backstabak:

That's a silly question, all these tech companies are situated in the same place, their leaders live close to each other and talk to each other regularly. They share mentality and ideology and in the past they have acted as one giant cartel, on several occasions in fact. I bet it just took a friendly phone call to Google to make it happen.

Hence why I said 'scary'. 🙄

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.

No need to exaggerate, he´s a douche, like many other Silicon Valley billionaires, but FB doesn´t belong to the government and is not that important in the grand scheme of life. More importantly, for those guys the nightmare was about corporations and governments forcing people into be surveilled all the time and forcing other nasty stuff, but i bet they never imagined that in the future people would forsake willingly their own privacy and liberty in exchange for services like FB, Google and others just because they are free... The irony...

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.

Unfortunately, we're our own Orwell at this point.

Zuckerberg is the most despicable creature on the planet! Damn synthetic man!

Valken:

I didn't even know such an extension existed! There needs to be a nuke option to un-everything!

There is: Just simply "delete" your account. That being said:

Embra:

I have heard one can never actually delete a created account. It just goes dormant. Is this true?

To my understanding, it keeps logs and probably any information that causes continuity errors with other users, but it will otherwise delete other stuff. I remember hearing a while back that the photos are never deleted. Not sure if that's still the case, but ostensibly, they are deleted too.

Loobyluggs:

And Google capitulated??? That is scary. That is very scary indeed. Why would Google agree to this?

Path of least resistance. If FB is having a conniption over an extension that most FB users wouldn't even want, Google is probably like "sorry dude, I'm not dealing with this" and just throws the guy under the bus. Think of it like the middle-aged couple out to dinner where the waiter grabs the wrong drink, and then the wife is screaming at him. The husband just sits there calmly, cutting into his steak, not even looking up. Should he intervene? Yeah. Will he? Not unless he wants to sleep on the couch that night.

Loobyluggs:

And Google capitulated??? That is scary. That is very scary indeed. Why would Google agree to this?

Why? Anyone, anything that can circumvent what BigTech planned is on the cancel list. Remember the scene in A Clockwork Orange where the guy was literally forced to watch movies to brainswash him? Welcome to the future.

Espionage724:

It goes against Facebook's TOS, and there's legal threats involved. Google has no reason to defend this addon.

and Google didn't create the add-on, but may be liable under some legal arcana. the second biggest group of douchebags in Silicon Valley are the corporate lawyers. they fuel a lot of the near-obligatory lawsuits that big tech are always launching against each other, in every case involving third party software it is far easier to abandon/quit claim the third party than to battle with an equal to resources.

Meh, glad i gave up on facebook many years ago, its a dumpster fire of a place, i prefer real friends i can see and visit over online only ones, when i was on facebook it was just a bunch of people fishing for likes and attention and trying to show off they have thousands of friends, i just could not care about that in the slightest, people nowadays are just so exhausting

tunejunky:

and Google didn't create the add-on, but may be liable under some legal arcana. the second biggest group of douchebags in Silicon Valley are the corporate lawyers. they fuel a lot of the near-obligatory lawsuits that big tech are always launching against each other, in every case involving third party software it is far easier to abandon/quit claim the third party than to battle with an equal to resources.

Perhaps, but here is an extension of my point: (if) the terms and conditions for using the Google Chrome SDK were not breached (as evidenced by the fact it was available and being used without anyone at Google saying anything) then why would Google capitulate, purely because FB didn't like someone for making something on another web site. Y'see? This person broke no rules, and this add-on was on Google, not on FB. It was a web browser plugin...and the only use of it was to shorten the quantity of clicks needed to use the website of FB. IT MAKES NO SENSE.

JOHN30011887:

Meh, glad i gave up on facebook many years ago, its a dumpster fire of a place, i prefer real friends i can see and visit over online only ones, when i was on facebook it was just a bunch of people fishing for likes and attention and trying to show off they have thousands of friends, i just could not care about that in the slightest, people nowadays are just so exhausting

I left Facebook several years ago. Never looked back and never missed it. It has too many issues, and few positives.

Embra:

I have heard one can never actually delete a created account. It just goes dormant. Is this true?

I could answer you, but you would not like the answer. Think of the worst, most depressing answer you could get. That and some more.

I'm pretty sure the government, Democrats/Communists will eventually take over Fakebook/Google/Twitter at some point. Why exactly do any of you use these communist social media platforms anyhow? Stop using this garbage! Mr Zuckerberg, you will start implementing a plan to only let what information thru we see fit, or we will let the Republicans enable section 320 and let people sue you out of existence.. - Democrat Communists.. No don't do that please.. As you command my Communist masters.. - Mark Zuckerberg

hey looby, i was never commenting on sense but rather on the sensibility of trading "favors" . i live in Silicon Valley and i can speak to those sensibilities. Google sells ads to FB and vice versa. the primary difference is FB is a closed ecosystem and Alphabet is not. Alphabet sells services to FB (et al), some of which include Google's armamentarium of cutting edge wizardry. but the greater point is in their need to "sing from the same hymnal" when it comes to Chamber of Commerce type of stuff up to and including Congress. being owed "favors" means an upper hand in making and getting zoning/land/connection to city power/water and sewer. all of which is literally in the billions for both companies and Google has the upper hand there too. each has to deal with a (different) County Board of Supervisors (the "Council"), but the same state and federal regulatory bodies. both FB and Google have invested tens of billions of dollars over two counties including shovel ready and shovel active projects. Google's San Jose project alone is 20,000 jobs with housing including redeveloping and re-invigorating a commuter train station. and including all of the necessities of village life (in the middle of the 2nd biggest city in CA). so yeah favors (i.e. compliance or getting out of the way) matter as does the knowledge that one or the other will be grilled by the media, so sweeping "under the rug" potential problems isn't surprising to me at all.

tunejunky:

hey looby, i was never commenting on sense but rather on the sensibility of trading "favors" . i live in Silicon Valley and i can speak to those sensibilities. Google sells ads to FB and vice versa. the primary difference is FB is a closed ecosystem and Alphabet is not. Alphabet sells services to FB (et al), some of which include Google's armamentarium of cutting edge wizardry. but the greater point is in their need to "sing from the same hymnal" when it comes to Chamber of Commerce type of stuff up to and including Congress. being owed "favors" means an upper hand in making and getting zoning/land/connection to city power/water and sewer. all of which is literally in the billions for both companies and Google has the upper hand there too. each has to deal with a (different) County Board of Supervisors (the "Council"), but the same state and federal regulatory bodies. both FB and Google have invested tens of billions of dollars over two counties including shovel ready and shovel active projects. Google's San Jose project alone is 20,000 jobs with housing including redeveloping and re-invigorating a commuter train station. and including all of the necessities of village life (in the middle of the 2nd biggest city in CA). so yeah favors (i.e. compliance or getting out of the way) matter as does the knowledge that one or the other will be grilled by the media, so sweeping "under the rug" potential problems isn't surprising to me at all.

Well, that is a bigger topic, thanks for the input, but still...no one broke any rules!

the new feed from friends was one reason i hated FB i didnt want to see every little stupied thing every one posted also hate the NEVER END "suggested friends" i kept getting. I dont use FB so i dont really care what FB wanted, but am sure alot peopel found that extension use full. and i dont get why FB dont let people turn that off

Espionage724:

I'm sure there's an actual reason and I'm sure we could all guess various conspiracies, but at the bare minimum, I'm sure Google could remove any addon they please without any reason/at their discretion. I didn't read into this so I'm not sure if any reason was actually given, but it's possible Facebook requested the removal of the plugin. If I host a website and someone uploads an extension that specifically targets my website and interacts with it in some undesirable way, I would certainly hope Google would remove that plugin at my request.

I do not disagree with you, but, as already highlighted by others here, the tool does not do anything for which you cannot do yourself, just lessens the clicks required to do it.