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by colanderman 3173 days ago
> Facebook sends data to your browser using straightforward HTTP requests that you can easily write a program to mimic.

Shameless plug, I wrote a plugin for Chrome [1] and Firefox [2] to do just that.

(Facebook is the opposite of WhatsApp – you can disable your online/offline status, but not your idle time.)

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/social-network-cha...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/social-networ...