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Wow. Were developers notified at all this was going to happen? Purely speculating--but I bet they discovered that their APIs were open for privacy abuse, and
by balls187 9y ago
Wow.
Were developers notified at all this was going to happen?
Purely speculating--but I bet they discovered that their APIs were open for privacy abuse, and rather than just disable the abusing accounts, they shut down the APIs until they can be fixed.
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- gubby 9y agoA deprecation is, normally, a notification (not the same thing as actually turning something off).
- bkanber 9y agoThis was not a deprecation. They immediately and without prior announcement revoked access to many endpoints that had been scheduled for shutdown later this year and next year.
- achairapart 9y agoThey already closed down everything in 2015 setting up a permission review system with very silly criteria.
- Naomarik 9y agoSilly indeed. I applied for it twice, having submitted a screen recording explaining what I was using it for. They gave me partial API access, pretty useless functionality. Not what I needed which was clearly explained in the second video. The application felt like I was begging. Not something I'd ever do again.
- ChrisLTD 9y agoYes. I had many web projects that were cut short by the requirement that you had to submit a video of a working app to get access to the API.
- bkanber 9y agoMany of these endpoints were scheduled for retirement in July and December of this year. Developers were NOT notified in advance that they would be abruptly shut down today. I also believe this is a reaction to all the recent privacy issues that Facebook is facing. They identified Instagram as a huge risk for behavioral mining (it is) and abruptly shut down all features that can be used to analyze behavior and infringe on privacy at a large scale.