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Re:Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it ... by cutemonster on Thursday October 07, 2021 @01:58PM (#28789926)
> had some amount of data collected

Ratio of followed people to total connections.

I think it makes no sense to ban an extension for that, and I don't think that's why they banned it. Instead, it could have threatened their bottom line, that's the problem.

It's reasonable important to get some tiny insight in if one's extension works or not.

They could have communicated with him and the University about what data to gather, for those who opted in.

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Re:Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it ... by romwell on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:41PM (#28794708)
It's a red herring. Here's what Facebook actually wrote as the reason for the ban[1]:

> Facebook has gathered evidence that your Chrome extension "Unfollow Everything for Facebook" facilitates unauthorized functionality on Facebook. Specifically, your extension automates action on Facebook, including mass following and unfollowing of Friends, Pages, and Groups. Your extension also impermissibly makes use of Facebook's trademarks. These activities violate Facebook's terms.

[1]https://louisbarclay.notion.site/Unfollow-Everything-cease-a...

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