Shoot the Messenger icon

Shoot the Messenger

by amol

v7.0.1 Updated May 2, 2025 120KiB
CWS
5K
Users
★ 3.87
67 reviews
#2736
of 61.9K
social
#126 of 1.4K

Description

(Buy my gf a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/theahura -- I don't drink the stuff but she loves it) UPDATE: due to changes in Facebook's UI, this tool will delete both your and the recipient's messages. It will still unsend your messages, but you will no longer have access to the other messages in the chat either. 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 go 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/ (Google's overzealous extension security flagger requires me to tell you that there is a "rate limit pause delay setting" in this extension. Consider yourself protected!)
Shoot the Messenger screenshot 1Shoot the Messenger screenshot 2

Reviews (20 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-07-04
Frank A (SOM-Silence4all)

Does not work at all! SEEMS to work on messenger.com....but NOPE. When you access messenger on phone or pc.. all still there !!

★☆☆☆☆2023-09-19
Dragoș Nechita

Skipping because we are in debug mode Fix it.

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-27
Sorin - Ionvt

Nop! Is not working, i get an error in extension Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'scrollTop') 69 while (el.scrollTop === 0) { I tried from google store and with depeloper mode, nothing happens

★☆☆☆☆2022-04-16
Corpuscule Corpuscule

Error !!!!

★☆☆☆☆2022-02-20
Lê Trung Kiên

ERROR: something went wrong. Failed to complete removal.

★☆☆☆☆2021-06-18
AspaRem

The message box goes out of bounds of the browser, and draws on top of it, making it literally unresponsive. I had to close chrome from task manager several times. Terrible user experience.

★☆☆☆☆2021-05-31
pɹɐzıʍ ʇɐıdʎɹd

Please fix this, because it didn't work

★☆☆☆☆2021-04-20
Bujna Péter

Does not work at all...

★★☆☆☆2025-11-18
Htly

It works for about 10 min and then refreshes the page and gives a chrome error: Could not find scroller. This normally happens because you do not have enough messages to scroll through. Failing. It does not work for links/stickers/gifs. It randomly jumps through conversations and skips over messages.

★★☆☆☆2023-12-09
bodey

I'm getting this error when I press at extensions,, Even from Github ERROR: Shoot the Messenger must be used on messenger.com, currently on https://www.facebook.com/messages/..... I tried the DEV mode and download the extensions from GitHub getting this error code : background.js:0 (anonymous function) I wish you can fix this issue so soon please,

★★☆☆☆2022-08-26
Adit

I can't get it working. I tried both method, 1. installing extension from chrome web store 2. loading unpacked extension in developer option However nothing happens when i run the extension on messenger. Please someone help me if possible !

★★☆☆☆2022-01-21
Aly

error, it didn't work. any tips? im using pc

★★★☆☆2025-12-26
Paulina

works like intended, but is extremely slow. for chats with a few thousand messages, this is useless. just unoptimal, too slow

★★★☆☆2025-12-14
Ln Ct

works sometimes but not very efficient ... update your script

★★★☆☆2024-03-26
Yamin Khan

It works but after few minutes it stops working and it says- Skipping holder: [object HTMLDivElement].... Need to fix this and another problem is it miss out many messages but most importantly the first issue needs to fix asap

★★★☆☆2023-07-20
Blue Comet

The extention has the tendancy to refresh the page after a certain period of time , however it does work

★★★☆☆2023-02-14
이검

on this current day i dont think it works, i'll wait plz check it sir

★★★☆☆2022-11-09
Arda Boran Topatan

Doesn't work

★★★☆☆2022-10-05
Isaiah N

Not currently working, saw the github comments, seemed to work yesterday? will check back periodically, saw you were busy

★★★☆☆2021-08-14
Blueberry B.

works, but it's soooo slow. unless i'm doing something wrong?

Permissions (2)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension storage Can store data locally in your browser

Details

Version 7.0.1
Updated May 2, 2025
Size 120KiB
First Seen Mar 22, 2026