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So, let's get this straight. 1. It is fair for Facebook to ask for usernames and passwords to Gmail, Hotmail, et. al. to provide functionality to their users.
by mdasen 18y ago
So, let's get this straight.
1. It is fair for Facebook to ask for usernames and passwords to Gmail, Hotmail, et. al. to provide functionality to their users.
2. It is unfair for Power.com to ask for Facebook usernames and passwords to provide functionality to their users.
- staunch 18y agoI think that's a good point. It seems to me that it should probably be legal to act as a proxy for a user and do anything that user could otherwise do themselves regardless of any TOS.
- cgranade 18y agoI know that Google provides an API for accessing Google Contacts w/o passwords, but does Hotmail provide similar? If not, then it is fair... you use what you can. Otherwise, if there is a better way, then it should be used. I don't think that legal pressure is the best way of doing that, but it certainly is understandable to me.
- immad 18y agoHotmail does have an API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb463989.aspx (looks complicated but is fairly easy)
- jonursenbach 18y agoIf it's in Facebooks TOS that you need to access their site specifically through them then yes, Power.com is in the wrong.
- staunch 18y agoFacebook doesn't get to define or create laws and ethics through their TOS.
- jonknee 18y agoThen they should ban the users who access through a proxy. A site can't put up a TOS that says you can't access through a proxy and then wait for it happen to sue. The web would be chocked full of liabilities if shit like that were allowed to happen. Searching Google would be too dangerous, what if one of the sites in a SERP had a TOS against coming from a referrer?
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