Block Facebook

Chrome Extension that protects your privacy by blocking FB

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Chrome Extension that protects your privacy by blocking FB

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Block Facebook is a Chrome Extension that helps you protect your privacy by blocking all URLs associated with Facebook (including Facebook tracking pixels). The recent Cambridge Analytica controversy adds to the long list of instances where Facebook has misused user data so it's time we do something about it. Plus, blocking FB is also good for productivity 😛 Inspired by: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16632677

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Hydrana

Well ... guys ... really? You really need a piece of technology to not go to the Facebook website ...? Just don't go there :) Since it exists I'm doing it and it is working well ;)

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8yr ago

Tempad

@zedtux keep in mind that almost every single site has at least one tracker, analytics and other stuff that collects your dats and analyzes your behaviour on the web. Special evil is a web fingerprint.. duckduckgo for it. Example: you might see a more expensive sneakers just because you been here and there.

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8yr ago

Hydrana

@inlinecoder thank you for your comment, but this is true for many other cases like Google, isn't it?

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8yr ago

Tempad

@zedtux especially Google ;) Android, Gmail, Chrome, ... you're basically doomed. Still, I'm using Google Drive in my Tempad (https://www.producthunt.com/post...) to provide platform-agnostic syncing capabilities (bc with iCloud you can't do it. Yes, you can use CloudKit but that's another story). How ironic. However you can opt to using Cyanogen-like, Chromium and other products where Google trails were stripped away.

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8yr ago

Nice timing. Would this block facebook ad tracking so if I visit a page that shows a pair of sneakers for sale, I won't get those pair of sneakers following me for the next 6 months on social media?

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8yr ago

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Maker

hey @matthewboyle25, I am not sure, it'll block all the calls made from your browser to these URLs: https://github.com/jmdugan/block... that are associated with Facebook. If any of those URLs are linked with Facebook's marketing pixel then yes! You'll disappear from Facebook's radar

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8yr ago

Will you be releasing the source code? I see the website is hosting using Github, but I don't see a repo for it.

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8yr ago

Can you out tweet an AI?

Maker

yes!! @idmontie either today or tomorrow.

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8yr ago

Great timing, I suspect more and more people will be installing these types of blockers. Facebook only? Or extended to other social media?

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8yr ago

Can you out tweet an AI?

Maker

hey @ragsy, I am not sure. It was suppose to be a two hour, after midnight kind of a project.

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8yr ago

@sarim_haq hit the nail on the head!

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8yr ago

Product Hunt

@sarim_haq Have you gotten a chance to try this out? What'd you think of it?

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8yr ago

Can you out tweet an AI?

Maker

Hey @jakecrump, I actually made it last night :p I was inspired by this Hackernews post from 2016 which was trending yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite...

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8yr ago

Can you out tweet an AI?

Maker

@jakecrump Can't figure out how to add myself as a maker

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8yr ago

Tempad

Just my 2 cents: why not use uBlock and block even more trackers, anytics, and other shit...

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8yr ago

Can you out tweet an AI?