Re:Facebook banned me for life because I help people use it ...
by romwell on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:48PM
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> I think it’s a simple case of someone getting caught writing a plugging that automates API requests and collects data from Facebook users
>It was the automated spamming of the API and the 3rd-party data collection that likely got him in trouble
Hmm, I wonder why you'd think that, versus believing that author's "spin" that Facebook is "trying to" bury an anti-addiction tool. Let's see what the cease-and-desist letter[1] says:
> 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.
Oh.
It turns out, Facebook specifically buried an anti-addiction tool for being an anti-addiction tool; and the comment that you made was an unsubstantiated and needless attack on the author.
>It was the automated spamming of the API and the 3rd-party data collection that likely got him in trouble
Hmm, I wonder why you'd think that, versus believing that author's "spin" that Facebook is "trying to" bury an anti-addiction tool. Let's see what the cease-and-desist letter[1] says:
> 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.
Oh.
It turns out, Facebook specifically buried an anti-addiction tool for being an anti-addiction tool; and the comment that you made was an unsubstantiated and needless attack on the author.
Comments like that don't belong here.
[1]https://louisbarclay.notion.site/Unfollow-Everything-cease-a...