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Fluff Busting Purity, or FB Purity for short (previously known as Facebook Purity) is a web browser extension designed to customize the Facebook website's user interface and add extra functionality. [1] Developed by Steve Fernandez, a UK-based programmer, it was first released in 2009 as a Greasemonkey script, [2] as donationware. [3]
Browser extension Free license Dependencies WebExt Rec. [2] Category Description Nonfree JS site Nonfree server Enigmail: MPL-2.0: No No Yes Yes Notes
The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive.
Unfollow Everything is a browser extension designed to help Facebook users reduce their time spent on the platform by mass unliking to reduce the clutter in their news feed. The extension, together with its creator, has been banned by Facebook and subject to legal warnings.
Free and open-source software portal; AdNauseam – A free and open-source browser extension that blocks and clicks on ads served by sites that ignore Do Not Track; Blur – An open-source application designed to stop non-consensual third party trackers.
This is a list of add-ons for Internet Explorer, which includes extensions and toolbars. They are to be used in conjunction with Internet Explorer, and not alone, as they depend on services provided by the browser, or its accompanying Windows RSS Platform.
Firesheep was an extension for the Firefox web browser that used a packet sniffer to intercept unencrypted session cookies from websites such as Facebook and Twitter. The plugin eavesdropped on Wi-Fi communications, listening for session cookies. When it detected a session cookie, the tool used this cookie to obtain the identity belonging to ...
The addition of people to a friend list without regard to whether one actually is their friend is sometimes known as friend whoring. [9] Matt Jones of Dopplr went so far as to coin the expression "friending considered harmful" to describe the problem of focusing upon the friending of more and more people at the expense of actually making any use of a social network.