Pro-privacy software vendor Abine, which points out a privacy advisory email, is also users to vote against Facebook's proposed changes. The company has that users may lose privacy protections under the new policy.

Unless opponents pull off a last-minute media coup, it seems unlikely that the vote will amount to more than a measure of user sentiment. With voting scheduled to end at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Friday, the total number of voters as of late Wednesday afternoon had not reached even 10 percent of the number needed to make the vote binding. About 85 percent of voters were rejecting the new documents.

The IDG News Service