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Oct 8, 2021 · Louis Barclay was the creator of “Unfollow Everything,” a browser extension that allowed Facebook users to essentially delete their News Feed by unfollowing all their connections at once.
May 9, 2024 · In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow Everything, Louis Barclay, leading that developer to shut down his tool after thousands of Facebook users...
- Ashley Belanger
Oct 7, 2021 · By Louis Barclay. Oct 07, 20219:38 AM. Timothy Hales Bennett / Unsplash. If someone built a tool that made Facebook less addictive—a tool that allowed users to benefit from Facebook’s positive...
- Louis Barclay
Dec 1, 2023 · What? The Challenges will take many forms: campaigns, projects, code, products, ideas, things. Some of them, I already have a very clear idea for — others, I’ll shape up as I get further in. For each Challenge, I will be publishing the following on Substack:
- Louis Barclay
May 5, 2024 · When the British software developer Louis Barclay developed a software workaround to address this problem, I was intrigued. Mr. Barclay’s tool — a piece of software known as an extension, which...
- Ethan Zuckerman
The developer Louis Barclay made a tool called Unfollow Everything for Facebook users. The extension removed Facebook users' News Feed by mass-unfollowing friends and pages. Barclay says he got a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook in July and was kicked off its platform.
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Oct 11, 2021 · The developer Louis Barclay made a tool called Unfollow Everything for Facebook users. The extension removed Facebook users' News Feed by mass-unfollowing friends and pages.
