The past week has undoubtedly been very difficult for Facebook. In addition to the blackout on Monday, the testimony of former employee Frances Haugen to the US Senate, revealed alleged compromising acts of the company. Parallel to this, Facebook decides to ban a developer who created a Google Chrome extension called Unfollow Everything.
As its name says, the extension allows the user to delete all friendships as well as the pages it tracks. This process cleaned up the news feed, and circumvented the social network's algorithm. Check below for all the details.
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What did the extension do?
In short, who created Unfollow Everything is developer Louis Barclay. FORThrough the extension, the user could delete all their Facebook connections, including the pages they followed. Thus, the news feed became a blank page, which allowed you to reframe what was seen on the home page.
Faced with Facebook's attitude, the user needs to unfollow friends or pages individually. And this attitude does not make the user completely lose their feed settings.
When creating the extension, Barclay received a warning letter from the social network. The company's justification is that the tool "automated interactions between users", which violates the platform's terms of conduct.
According to Barclay, his tool is being used in academic research at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. There, researchers assess the effects that the news feed has on users' happiness. Nonetheless, as he has no way of fighting facebook, he will delete the extension.
With information, The Verge.
