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The Facebook API is, now at least, a capabilities based system where you ask the user for permission to access various bits of information. The major problem th
by fiddlerwoaroof 9y ago
The Facebook API is, now at least, a capabilities based system where you ask the user for permission to access various bits of information. The major problem these days is that people don’t read through the authorization dialogs because they want to see which Star Wars character they are.
- ericflo 9y agoTo my knowledge, you're not able to reveal just your first name, or just a proof that you're a FB verified user. And once you grant access, it's forever. We may be at a global maximum for user permissions, but I doubt it. The problem is we can't try anything new - since it's all stored in FB's servers, we have to wait for them to build new granular capabilities.
- ethbro 9y agoThe truth is that Facebook engineering & UX has been either incompetent (incredibly unlikely given the caliber of people they have) or willfully / inadvertently avoiding clearly communicating to users what permissions apps need. The thought that they can't "do better" than dialogs / strings identifying each permission is laughable. It's not rocket science.