Show HN: Facebook Unlike

Why do people make sites like this where you're required to give them access to tons of your information before they even tell you what they do? The home page does a poor job explaining why I should use this to unlike pages over, say, logging into Facebook and unliking pages on my own.

You should add a like button to this page, for mega meta irony points.

Which likes is it supposed to show? It only showed 24 likes for me and I'm aware of many more things that I've liked that weren't shown there.<p>Edit: If you go here <a href="http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/" rel="nofollow">http://developers.facebook.com/tools/explorer/</a> and add 'likes' to the FQL query, you can see many more via the API.

Search for "Nick Bergus" and "55-gallon drum of lubricant" to see why you don't want to end up in a sponsored ad.

I like the idea. I'm not sure how long Facebook will allow it to operate for, but it's a good tool for those of us conscious about the amount of data shared on social networks.<p>However, I have two issues:<p>The site is claiming that the likes are used to populate advertising on Facebook. Surely a better way to prevent that is through <a href="http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&#38;section=social&#38;view" rel="nofollow">http://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&#38;section=social&...</a> rather than removing likes? Perhaps I'm being misled by Facebook, but I have presumed that by toggling the option on the linked page to "no one" I would not have my data used to populate advertising in that way.<p>A second issue is the access the site is asking for; it is <i>significantly</i> too much. Again, I'm not overly familiar with Facebook so perhaps I'm incorrect here, but surely the site only needs fairly restricted access? Maybe the API doesn't allow such fine-tuning, but being allowed to post on my timeline seems excessive.

Interesting, I went through my likes and I don't really have a problem with any of these pages/brands. I guess I don't "like" a ton of stuff (maybe 30 pages, no major brands) so maybe it's not an issue for me but is for other people.

Usage of your image in this fashion can be blocked via a setting on Facebook that is very easy to find: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&#38;view" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads&#38;view</a><p>No need to go through and unlike things for the purpose of hiding your endorsement of it.

Can you explain why and what the app will post on the timeline? I didn't see an example on the site. thanks.

<i></i> I HIGHLY recommend no one else use this site without more followup from the developer <i></i><p>I don't like this. Not for what it claims to do, but because it doesn't clearly say what it <i>does</i> do.<p>"Facebook Unlike". I get that, good name. When I go to the site, I understand I have to sign in with Facebook. That's fine.<p>Problems:<p>1) Why does your app require permission to write to my page? You only need permissions to read all the pages that I have liked, nothing more.<p>2) It is not clear where these FB pages are coming from. I am presented with a handful of FB pages. Now some of them I have Liked and will continue to do so like Photopic Sky Survey. But I am also presented with things like "omg! from Yahoo" and "omg! Insider", but of which I have never and would never like.<p>3) The term "Unlike" indicates there should be buttons or toggles called "Unlike". At a minimum, hitting "Like" on something I've already clicked should "unlike" it. However, I'm seeing a mix of pages that I definitely have liked and other ones like "omg!" that I did not like. The "Like" button is available on this. If I hit that, am I liking or unliking that page? Its a visual double negative.<p>4) Once you hit Like, there's no way toggle the button state again. It just turns to Like and stays there.

I was pleasantly surprised that I only have about 40 likes, most of them small local businesses or projects friends are connected to somehow. Didn't feel the need to unlike anything. Cool idea though.

How long is this supposed to take? It's just showing a spinner for me.

.... and facebook banned it.<p>Login is dead.

Why does the app need all these permissions to access my likes?

Needs to have a more prominent share button so I can send this to my friends who have so helpfully 'liked' products that I'm now spammed with.

It took me a second to get what this was, but after I logged in with FB I definitely found some pages I needed to unlike. Great idea.

Yesss! As expected, there is only one like on mine: "Saying 'hella'."

How did this ever reach the top on HN?

Probably good for those who don't know what they're doing on the Internet.

doesn't work for me, i get a login error. too bad.