Facebook has no control over a user's browser. The most they can do is randomly ban users, like this guy.
The truth is this is something no website can control. If I want to view FB via a local proxy on my device that filters out commercial garbage, I can do so. And I can show any of my friends how to do the same. A little tcpserver, tcpclient and sed and we can clean things up quite nicely, with minimal fuss.
These attempts to control how someone views a website (e.g. see Twitter's recent efforts) are futile. This is digital, not print. A social website is mainly just text (html) and various resource files (e.g. images), it is all malleable in digital form and there are myriad ways to process it and render it, of which the Facebook developers' choice or a popular web browser developers' choice are only a few.
You have to wonder if FB's legal team even understands what is technically feasible and what isn't (like controlling how a page is viewed, on the client side).
The truth is this is something no website can control. If I want to view FB via a local proxy on my device that filters out commercial garbage, I can do so. And I can show any of my friends how to do the same. A little tcpserver, tcpclient and sed and we can clean things up quite nicely, with minimal fuss.
These attempts to control how someone views a website (e.g. see Twitter's recent efforts) are futile. This is digital, not print. A social website is mainly just text (html) and various resource files (e.g. images), it is all malleable in digital form and there are myriad ways to process it and render it, of which the Facebook developers' choice or a popular web browser developers' choice are only a few.
You have to wonder if FB's legal team even understands what is technically feasible and what isn't (like controlling how a page is viewed, on the client side).