>Writing a plug-in that scrapes content, however trivial or anonymized the author thinks it might be, is cause for concern for a company like Facebook yes, I t

>Writing a plug-in that scrapes content, however trivial or anonymized the author thinks it might be, is cause for concern for a company like Facebook yes, I think it is this idea of Facebook's which is being criticized a more nuanced approach would be better -- for example, if the issue is indeed a data violation, then the policy could be more nuanced to allow this sort of data collection, and that wouldn't require any additional code review of 3rd party apps but of course, given the recent testimony of Facebook putting engagement before user safety, it seems obvious that the motivating factor was the disengagement the tool helped enable, not any sort of metrics the user agreed to send indeed, TFA even links to this post which lays bare facebook's bogus "privacy" pretext for limiting interactions that promote social good: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/once-again-facebook-using-privacy-sword-kill-independent-innovation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/once-again-facebook-us...