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> FB never made any direct or implied promise in its EULA that you could mass unfollow everything

Why does this have to be explicitly allowed? Everything not prohibited is permitted.

> there probably ARE terms against scripting their API in an unauthorized way

The extension is not bound by any terms. It's the user's choice whether to violate these conditions by installing and using it.

In any case, users should have every right to do this. It's essentialy self-defense against corporate abuse. They can get us addicted to content feeds so we spend hours looking at ads but we can't script their site? That's abuse and we have every right to defend ourselves. These stupid terms are like a drug dealer that makes us promise not to go to a doctor and seek help for addiction before giving us our free sample.



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