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> that asked explicitly for a huge set of the users Facebook permissions which then led to scraping and spam.

I seem to remember early 2010s... I had written a few small FB apps, and ... the minimal permissions it would ask for from people were... large. IIRC, the minimal permissions always included access to friend lists, even when I had 0 intention of using that. I didn't want it, but there was no way to opt out. I suspect it's somewhat more granular now, and less intrusive out of the box, but... yeah, when your defaults/minimums are expansive, you'll get stuff like that. I think the CA stuff still happened while those defaults were in place (although they may have also asked for more permissions too).

parent mgkimsal 3 years ago

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