#3.82 / 55 rate

Shoot the Messenger

4,000 users

2021-03-24

amol

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Description

This extension sequentially unsends all messenges in a messenger chain.

(Buy my gf a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theahura -- I don't drink the stuff but she loves it)

If you're like me, you've been on FB Messenger for over a decade. And if you're like me, you care about privacy. I wrote this extension to clean up my digital footprint. Unlike other extensions, which only hide the messages from the user's inbox, Shoot the Messenger will remove messages from the RECEIVER'S inbox as well.

It's simple: you open a messenger thread on a desktop, press 'remove messages', and go get a coffee. While you're gone, the extension will scroll up through your messenger thread and automatically unsend every message. Unsending a message means that anyone in the thread will see 'X has unsent a message' instead of the original text of the message.

Technical details: this extension doesn't send any information to any servers, or try to reverse-engineer Facebook's messenger API. Instead, it simply simulates mouse clicks on the UI as if a user was pressing buttons.

The code can be found here: https://github.com/theahura/shoot-the-messenger/
I'll be posting updates on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theahura_

Reviews

Dadok Official

Works but very slow.

Julkar Nain

Works fine for me recommended

Kadeli

Did a test run. I can confirm that as of the timing of my post here it works to remove sent messages and pictures from BOTH the sender and receiver's accounts! I also checked from my messenger app on an android phone and a separate account on the Safari browser to confirm that messages were indeed removed for both parties. However, you may have to run the program a few times since it does miss some messages, even in a conversation string consisting of less than ten messages. EDIT TO ADD: Just discovered that several messages were skipped during the deletion process! It will very likely take several run throughs to get all, as it skips around some of the messages and then other times gets a lot deleted in a row.