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This whole round of Open Graph apps that share stuff like what you're reading are all opt-in. You have to authorize the app in order for it to publish anything

• FuzzyDunlop 15y ago
  Opt in on the app level, but not necessarily on the permissions level. Maybe this is not generally a problem until you get software like Spotify (entirely third party) that now requires a Facebook account to work. I don't know how they've pulled this off, whether they've forced non-Facebook accounts to add Facebook, or not. But if the former is the case, that is about as far from 'opt-in' as you can get. And up until an incomprehensible oversight was addressed (now 'cleverly' marketed as an amazing feature with its own name and everything), you couldn't opt out. But of course that's not the end of it. Because the opt-in then opt-out model still allows Facebook to log even the most basic data from the user in that period of time in-between. While Facebook's cavalier approach to privacy and ethics may become the examples that prove the importance of privacy and ethics in a transitional era (where the introduction of the internet into everyday life is still a very new concept), the "shoot first, ask questions later" method doesn't really endear them to anyone. No business could show more contempt for its customers and for consumers by partnering up with a business like Facebook and demanding you sign up with them to subscribe to their service.