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Creating automation tools has been against their rules forever.

• asdff 5y ago
  I call B.S. on that one. How do you think large commercial accounts make posts on facebook and instagram and other places? It's not from writing and posting right then like you and I. Social media managers use third party tools where they can write a bunch of posts in advance and have them drip fed out at peak hours over time. That's automatic tooling too, yet facebook tolerates it because advertisers rely on it rather than users like the case of the OP extension.
  • tompainetoday 5y ago
    through the api
    • pmlnr 5y ago
      you mean automating through the api.
      • tompainetoday 5y ago
        some parts, but I believe any comments done through automation are strictly limited. the issue in this case seems to be the guy wrote a plugin that interacted with the front end, which, again, has always been strictly prohibited, and commonly results in bans from the platform.
        • pmlnr 5y ago
          Are you some fb zealot? The API used to provide all these things, when suddenly FB decided people shouldn't have access to their own thing. No wonder they make workarounds, because they HAD that kind of access in the past.
          • tompainetoday 5y ago
            again, front end automation tools are commonly banned, along with the developers. the ban was surely because how the tool was interacting with their website, not that the tool was trying to help people unfollow pages or friends.