How can this C&D have any legal basis? This person is providing an extension that is just a piece of software for a browser. The user can choose to 'violate the terms of service' or not. But browser automation isn't something Facebook has the standing to block, I would think.
Also how do they feel about Social Book Post Manager (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...), an extension that lets people delete their Facebook history selectively (like all your video views), in bulk? This seems like a basic feature any trustworthy social media platform or technology company in general should provide. But since Facebook doesn't, someone made an extension that helps users out. Unfortunately this extension is out of date and doesn't work in 2021 because it doesn't have '2021' as an option in their date filter, and because Facebook's continual UI changes to the activity log seem to be designed to break this extension, since they certainly provide no benefits to users.
Can some hacker here who has the skills please make a tool to help lay persons clear their posts/comments/likes/etc. one by one for Facebook, Instagram, and the rest?
One trick they can pull out in the future is to write into the terms of service that you can't use the service to develop extensions manipulating the service. Then they change something, anything to make the extension not work. If the extension gets fixed, clearly someone broke the terms of service.
Watch for a terms of service update from facebook.
I had a company fire this at me back in 2000 or so. It worked, in that it wasn't worth dealing with the issues and I stopped. It didn't work in the sense the company is long gone anyhow....
C&Ds often have questionable reasoning to back them up. Any lawyer can write something that sounds scary to get you to stop. Whether they are actually interpreting the law correctly is up to the courts, and Facebook knows most people give in because they don't want to chance it or spend money fighting it.
Also how do they feel about Social Book Post Manager (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-book-post-m...), an extension that lets people delete their Facebook history selectively (like all your video views), in bulk? This seems like a basic feature any trustworthy social media platform or technology company in general should provide. But since Facebook doesn't, someone made an extension that helps users out. Unfortunately this extension is out of date and doesn't work in 2021 because it doesn't have '2021' as an option in their date filter, and because Facebook's continual UI changes to the activity log seem to be designed to break this extension, since they certainly provide no benefits to users.
Can some hacker here who has the skills please make a tool to help lay persons clear their posts/comments/likes/etc. one by one for Facebook, Instagram, and the rest?