Wasn't it was worse than that? I think they used to ask for your email and password explicitly for the contacts. Twitter used to do the same as well as some oth

Wasn't it was worse than that? I think they used to ask for your email and password explicitly for the contacts. Twitter used to do the same as well as some others. Here is a blog post from 2008 about Yelp doing it, but I can't find anything for Twitter (though I definitely remember it being the case back in the day, a comment on this blog post also mentions it) https://blog.codinghorror.com/please-give-us-your-email-password/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/please-give-us-your-email-pass...