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From the very beginning there has been a rule that you were not allowed to persist data more than a few days in your own dB. But it was obvious there was no way
by bredren 9y ago
From the very beginning there has been a rule that you were not allowed to persist data more than a few days in your own dB. But it was obvious there was no way for fb to verify what you did or did not keep.
There has never been substantial control on profile data harvest on fb. It was whatever you could get users to okay, which was a lot given the value your app had to appear to provide.
- rpmcmurphy 9y agoA substantial percentage of the US population installed that "cow clicker" app at some point, and who knows what data they harvested. Even if they did not access your full profile, they could probably learn a lot about you based on when and how often you were clicking on cows.
- whatever_dude 9y agoWhile your point stands, Cow Clicker itself was unlikely to be doing something nefarious. It was created specifically as a criticism of similar game mechanics, and got viral mostly by accident. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_Clicker Hence why the researcher who created it decided to kill it.