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I remember building very innocent Facebook Apps for Marketing purposes back in 2011-14 and being very annoyed at the privacy changes as they made our "cute" use
by Roritharr 9y ago
I remember building very innocent Facebook Apps for Marketing purposes back in 2011-14 and being very annoyed at the privacy changes as they made our "cute" usecases basically impossible. At the time I always imagined Facebook would monitor their API usage to prevent aggressive mining as this would surely be against their own interests, but as it seems they didn't care.
If only someone would have used this hole to seed something like Diaspora to help break the critical mass problem for those kinds of projects.
- makomk 9y agoFunnily enough, I vaguely remember there being articles on HN claiming that Facebook's lockdown of access to their social graph was an anti-competitive practice that needed to be stopped when it originally happened, though I can't seem to find them again so might be misremembering.
- dannyw 9y agoThere are comments in this thread suggesting that FB made the OpenGraph changes to preserve their competitive advantage. If they lock down their APIs even more, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more accusations of these.
- dwighttk 9y agohow long you think that hole would've stayed open if that were happening?