Just to make it clear:
Greasemonkey or Greasemonkey scripts cannot delete Facebook posts
directly, all any script could do is provide an easy way to automate
what you'd have to do by hand on Facebook. So if there is the ability to
delete an old Facebook post by clicking a "Delete" link and confirm a
popup dialog, a dedicated script could click the link and confirm the
popup for you.
It sounds like you have such script that tries to automate deleting old
posts, and chances are Facebook updated something on their side and now
the script does no longer know what to do because the page's source code
is now different at a certain part that the script needed to find the
things it needed to click on.
An arbitrary example to illustrate what I mean would be that the delete
links were previously tagged with "fb-action-delete-post" and now
they're named "fb-action-remove-post". The script tries to identify the
delete link by looking for a post's "fb-action-delete-post" link; now it
doesn't find that link, hence it doesn't know what to do and does nothing.
Usually, script authors will fix such issues on their side and update
the script at the website it was hosted on. However there a chance the
script has been abandonned by the original author, or (s)he hasn't fixed
it yet, or the automated update doesn't work. If you remember where you
go the script from, try visiting that page and see if there have been
any updates published.
Chris
Am 20.09.2019 um 23:23 schrieb Dan Almashy:
While someone is on looking, can I ask why my greasemonkey doesn't
delete my old facebook posts etc when I tell it to? I have tried it
multiple times on firefox and it goes through the motions but never
does actually delete anything. I have stuff from 9 years ago and just
want to clear most of it other than recent stuff, maybe I need to do
something other to make it work?
On Friday, September 20, 2019 at 2:16:54 PM UTC-4, Rick Bauer wrote:
What on earth makes anyone at greasemonkey think they have the
mental capacity to decide for me which scripts I want to run and
more importantly who feels they have the right to just remove
scripts I use regularly from MY browser?
I'm not even sure that is legal without permission of the owner.
This is completely disrespectful to your users and is an insult
the same as if you told your users you could care less how they
feel or what they want.
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