{"id":137361,"date":"2021-10-09T06:26:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T05:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=137361"},"modified":"2023-06-22T08:18:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T07:18:03","slug":"facebook-has-banned-a-developer-who-made-an-extension-to-unfollow-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/facebook-has-banned-a-developer-who-made-an-extension-to-unfollow-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook has banned a developer who made an extension to unfollow everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Barclay, a British browser extension developer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2021\/10\/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html\" rel=\"noopener\">was banned<\/a>\u00a0from Facebook after he created the Unfollow Everything tool.\u00a0This Chrome extension allows you to clear your social network news feed in one click.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I still remember the feeling when I first unsubscribed from everything.\u00a0It was wonderful.\u00a0I didn't lose anything as I could still see my favorite friends and groups by going to them directly.\u00a0But I got a mind-boggling amount of control.\u00a0That night, my addiction to Facebook became manageable, &#8211; said the developer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Slate Magazine, Unfollow Everything was published on the Chrome Store last year, but after a while Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/louisbarclay\/status\/1446111177499500559\" rel=\"noopener\">demanded<\/a>\u00a0that Barclay remove it.\u00a0But despite the fact that he complied with the requirement due to his reluctance to get a lawsuit, the company permanently blocked Louis' Facebook and Instagram accounts.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In case you were wondering, this is what an extremely aggressive cease-and-desist letter from Facebook looks like:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MEjVbdoqe8\">https:\/\/t.co\/MEjVbdoqe8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My favourite part is where they demand that I give them a list of every single domain I own<\/p>\n<p>Um, why?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Louis Barclay (@louisbarclay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/louisbarclay\/status\/1446111177499500559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Louis noted that after publishing the extension, he received a lot of positive user feedback.\u00a0Moreover, the University of Neuch\u00e2tel in Switzerland offered him cooperation in studying the impact of social networks on people's lives.<\/p>\n<p>According to the developer, his tool threatened the company's profit, as the news feed makes users hang out longer on the social network and view more ads.\u00a0At the same time, Barclay called Facebook's behavior &#8220;not just anti-competitive, but anti-consumer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen\u00a0said the\u00a0company's products harm children, incite discord and threaten democracy.\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg decided to deny these accusations:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Barclay, a British browser extension developer,\u00a0was banned\u00a0from Facebook after he created the Unfollow Everything tool.\u00a0This Chrome extension allows you to clear your social network news feed in one click. I still remember the feeling when I first unsubscribed from everything.\u00a0It was wonderful.\u00a0I didn&#8217;t lose anything as I could still see my favorite friends and [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/technology\/facebook-has-banned-a-developer-who-made-an-extension-to-unfollow-everything\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":137362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[805],"tags":[779],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-137361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137361"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=137361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}