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typpo on July 20, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I hate read receipts

There are partial solutions to the problem of FB read receipts. You can block the endpoint that the Facebook client sends the receipt to. I wrote a simple Chrome extension (11 LOC) for this: https://github.com/typpo/fb-unsee

There is a more full-featured extension too: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fb-unseen/ihcedcpm...

synchronise on July 20, 2013 [–]

Is there a Firefox plugin that will do the same?

pliny on July 20, 2013 | [–]

You could probably paste the code into greasemonkey without any changes.

synchronise on July 20, 2013 | | [–]

Well, could someone make a Greasemonkey script for this? I'd do it myself, but I'm not familiar with scripting extensions.

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