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They are referring to the privacy of _other_ users whose information could be scraped by these plugins, contrary to the privacy guarantees of their post (e.g. "
by samhw 5y ago
They are referring to the privacy of _other_ users whose information could be scraped by these plugins, contrary to the privacy guarantees of their post (e.g. "only my friends can see this"). I'm sceptical of Facebook's motivations, but we should at least be accurate.
- mishafb 5y agoYeah, but obviosuly facebook doesn't have shadow profiles /s
- paulryanrogers 5y agoThis is possible with any extension that can scrape site data or every camera ever made. Also the source of the extension can prove such exfiltraion is not its purpose.
- samhw 5y agoThis extension is explicit about scraping and storing data from Facebook, which obviously makes it rather more of a target. And I'm not sure what the point of bringing up a camera is - obviously Facebook can't stop people doing that, but I can't see why that entails that they should simply do nothing about any scraping of data.
- chuckee 5y agoThey should do nothing because once they show data to a user, they have no legitimate claim to forbid that user from telling others what Facebook has shown them. What you're talking about is essentially DRM, using technological means to circumvent user rights.