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Interesting. I wonder if this clause was in the GMail ToS when FB started doing this. The Contacts API (which FB probably uses today) has different terms, and
by pohl 17y ago
Interesting. I wonder if this clause was in the GMail ToS when FB started doing this.
The Contacts API (which FB probably uses today) has different terms, and appears to not conflict with this usage.
So we would need to piece together a timeline. Probably not worth the effort.
- what 17y agoYeah, that effort could be put to something more productive :) ...I should get back to work.
- streety 17y agoA while ago I did look into this. I can't remember what the situation was with Gmail at the time but I'm fairly sure that hotmail had a similar clause in their ToS whilst Facebook was actively enabling scraping.