Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by yid on Thursday September 12, 2013 @01:47PM
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If they put that clause in their ToS, and then decided to kick you off Facebook for wearing tinted glasses, they'd be well within their rights.
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Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by alextingle on Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:12PM
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The ToS is irrelevant. They can kick you off FB for no reason at all, if they want.
Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by troels on Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:18PM
(#6375875)
They would be in their rights - legally speaking - but would it be reasonable? And would you expect it to happen?
Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by yid on Thursday September 12, 2013 @02:30PM
(#6375977)
Whether or not it is reasonable is besides the point here -- I was responding to a bad analogy.
Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by tlrobinson on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:26PM
(#6377853)
Of course they can kick any Facebook user/group off for any reason, but I suspect they would have a hard time taking any sort of legal action against a plugin (or tinted glasses) that merely changes the way a user's browser interprets the resources loaded from Facebook.
Anyway, I think it's silly for Facebook to be going after tools that make users like Facebook more, as long as they don't somehow degrade the experience for others (spamming, etc)
Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by yid on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:35PM
(#6377883)
> going after tools that make users like Facebook more
I suspect it has more to do with the fact that many of these tools strip ads.
Re:Facebook deletes Social Fixer page, blocks page admins
by tlrobinson on Thursday September 12, 2013 @08:44PM
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I installed Social Fixer, and it doesn't strip ads, at least not by default.