Fluff Busting Purity

Fluff Busting Purity
Developer(s) Steve Fernandez
Initial release 2009
Stable release 12.8.0 / 11 December 2014
Written in JavaScript,CSS
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Google Chrome extension
Mozilla extension
Safari extension
Opera extension
Maxthon extension
Greasemonkey script
Website fbpurity.com

Fluff Busting Purity, or FB Purity for short (previously known as Facebook Purity) is a web browser extension designed to customise 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] It is available for Firefox,[4] Google Chrome,[5] Safari,[6] Opera [7] and the Maxthon Cloud Browser.[8]

In February 2012, Fernandez was banned from Facebook, although he was allowed back two weeks later. In April, Facebook blocked linking to his site, describing it as "spammy and abusive".[2] despite the fact that all the major antivirus and safety scanners that the VirusTotal security scanner aggregator website utilises report the site as being safe.[9]

In December, the company both objected to the name "Facebook Purity" (which Fernandez changed to 'Fluff Busting Purity' in response),[2] and claimed that its development violates the site's Terms of Service. In response to this perceived violation, the company told Fernandez he was unauthorized to access Facebook, which he described at the time as potentially the "end of the road" for the script's development,[10] however he is still maintaining and updating the add-on so they clearly haven't enforced the ban.

References

  1. ↑ Whitson, Gordon (5 August 2010). "F. B. Purity Hides Annoying Facebook Applications and News Feed Updates". Lifehacker. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Gold, Jon (19 December 2012). "Facebook bans developer of timeline-cleaning browser extension". Network World. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  3. ↑ Broida, Rick (2 February 2010). "Remove Annoying Messages From Your Facebook Home Page". PC World. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
  4. ↑ "F.B. Purity - Cleans Up Facebook". Mozilla Firefox Add-ons. 24 December 2013. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  5. ↑ "F.B Purity-Clean Up Facebook". Google Chrome Extensions. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  6. ↑ "F.B. Purity - Cleans Up Facebook". Apple Safari Extensions. 9 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  7. ↑ "F.B. Purity for Facebook". Opera Add-Ons. 5 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  8. ↑ "F.B. Purity - Clean Up & C ...". Maxthon Extensions. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 9 November 2014.
  9. ↑ "Scan report for http://www.fbpurity.com/ at 2014-11-10 20:37:32 UTC - VirusTotal". VirusTotal. 10 November 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  10. ↑ Wauters, Robin (19 December 2012). "Facebook has banned the creator of FB Purity, a browser add-on that lets users customize the site". The Next Web. Retrieved 2 March 2014.

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