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In the old days didn't lots of people give their email passwords to Facebook, so that it can scan their contact and invite everyone to Facebook?
by ma2rten 8y ago
In the old days didn't lots of people give their email passwords to Facebook, so that it can scan their contact and invite everyone to Facebook?
- bArray 8y agoNot sure about them previously asking for email passwords, but there are many email APIs that can give permissions access to your contacts [0]. I don't doubt that in the older days of Facebook they were probably achieving this using some shadier methods. But worse than this, just by installing the Facebook App it liberally takes contact details from your device [1]. I personally use mbasic.facebook.com as it can run without JS and only updates when you refresh the browser. facebook.com refuses to run without JS and causes my browser to use tonnes of resources when JS is enabled. (P.S. Like many, I can't completely abandon Facebook just yet as lots of older friends and family are "unable" to migrate to other platforms.) [0] https://developers.google.com/contacts/v3/ https://developers.google.com/contacts/v3/ [1] http://www.androidbeat.com/2018/03/facebooks-android-stealing-contacts-call-logs-sms-data-years/ http://www.androidbeat.com/2018/03/facebooks-android-stealin...
- tomc1985 8y agoEven if Facebook didn't, I'm pretty sure LinkedIn did
- jaimehrubiks 8y agoI didn't know about mbasic facebook, it is awesome! Thank you. It even works the chat without needing to put the phone in desktop mode.
- murat124 8y agoPeople changed their email passwords many times since then, time to update the db.
- wodenokoto 8y agoYes. Linkedin was quite agressive about it back in the days.
- Tepix 8y agoEven worse, wasn't it Facebook claiming to some of your friends that you used this feature even when you didn't? It was basically Facebook ruining your reputation.