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As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users. There is no way Facebook could reasonably detect or combat that.


I think you're confusing it with another recent FB event where they sued browser extension makers for scraping FB data.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-sues-two-chrome-exten...


> As I understand, it was a browser extension which scraped data off the Facebook pages visited by users.

That is false:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana...


Nevermind. I thought it was a browser extension. I was not aware of the "Open Graph" platform. Thank you for the correction.




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