Shoot the Messenger
What is Shoot the Messenger?
Extension stats
- activeTab
- storage
- http://*.messenger.com/*
- https://*.messenger.com/*
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Extension summary
(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_
User reviews
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spammy, or outdated.- Works well for deleting messages
- Helps to delete messages faster than manual deletion
- Effective in removing sent messages from both parties
- Users appreciate the attention to detail and caution against being banned
- Helpful for cleaning up unwanted messages
- Tends to skip messages during deletion
- Can be slow and requires multiple runs to work effectively
- Issues with the extension not working on certain pages
- Crashes or stops functioning after some time
- Users experience errors in debug mode
- Works but can be slow
- Needs multiple runs for full deletion
- Skips certain messages
- Requires running a few times to be effective
- Experiences issues when not used on messenger.com
Recent reviews
Aaron Julian, 2024-11-02 
Christina Gifford, 2024-10-23 
Dadok Official, 2024-08-31Extension safety
Risk impact
Shoot the Messenger requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Shoot the Messenger has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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