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92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account
- gygygy 13y agoSome applications I used as a newcomer to facebook still had access to my profile. And I never knew they still had this much access. Thank you for this link.
- lazyjones 13y ago"Apps" in this context probably means mostly "websites I used 'login with facebook' on". (I would have had a closer look if this wasn't a closed-source download ...)
- kubiiii 13y ago"Start cleaning : this plug in can access all of your data on all websites tabs and navigation activity." Kind of ironic. Pretty useful anyway.
- olivieramar 13y agoUnfortunately, there's no way we can help you without getting that kind of access. That being said, we really expect people to do their due diligence when giving security apps permission to act on their behalf. We'd love to hear if you can think of a better way for us to do it.
- kubiiii 13y agoDon't get me wrong, I find your site useful, and must I add, well designed. Maybe you could ask the user if he wishes to revoke the authorizations for your own app after scanning.
- olivieramar 13y agoAll you need to do to get that done is disable the extension. Once that's done, there is no access.
- alexcroox 13y ago93*
- robinhoodexe 13y ago"The author of this addon has not been verified" How ironic
- olivieramar 13y agoYou're using Firefox or explorer right? Their process of verification is downright absurd. Every time we update the service we need to reverify the addon and it takes months. The irony is that we only update the addon to give more protection to users.
- Semaphor 13y agoOnly 34 but I decided I might spring clean and removed 8 of those that I don't need anymore :)
- Vaanir 13y agoSome of the Google ones are ambiguous or duplicated. I revoked everything anyway.
- SnaKeZ 13y agoIs it reliable?
- solox3 13y agoThey're just links to the network sites' permission pages.
- olivieramar 13y agoTry their other site. MyPermissions.com
- adambenayoun 13y agoHoly guacamole - 110 applications have access to my facebook account. ...removing...
- zozu 13y agoLuckily I manage this on a monthly base. Only 23 on Facebook and none of those can acces information I do not want them to see. Good link though, we need more awareness for third party apps accesing our social media profiles.
- rplnt 13y agoI can see 8 for facebook (two of those are my apps and one is something called "Developer", I guess that's related). Thought it would be more. Four for google if I count various stackoverflows as one. Five for twitter and that's it. Can't even imagine how would one rise to a hundred.
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- Spittie 13y agoI prefer to prevent - I almost never give access to my account to some application/websites, and prefer the plain old email to create an account somewhere. I've just checked on Facebook, and I have two. A game (that only supported Facebook sign-in, I usually just delete the game if I find that) and a third-party client. Same for Twitter, I just have a bunch of third-party clients.
- gygygy 13y agoOf course, but 5-6 years ago some of us were teens who had no idea about online privacy. It worries me to see how many application I used long time back had so much information about me.
- wil421 13y agoI realized the first time I clicked on a Facebook app and it automatically spammed my friends and my wall that FB apps were something I wouldnt be using. Not only because of privacy concerns but also because of spamming concerns.
- subverting 13y agoSo its fine if facebook is data mining everything but ahhhh freakout when some third party app has a smidge? Lol...
- sejje 13y agoI think the idea is more about being aware of it. And "a smidge" might be full access, more-or-less, to all the important stuff.
- Shish2k 13y agoFacebook has a reputation to uphold, so they won't do anything completely and obviously evil without slowly ramping up to it over several years first; third party apps can abuse all the data they want, get shut down, and then come back a week later with a new name.
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- ateevchopra 13y agoIts really helpful. Apps like "What emotion are you" and "where you will be 10 years from now" have permission to read my messages !. Thanks for opening my eyes !
- smackfu 13y agoAren't most of these "Facebook Apps" just using Facebook for easier account creation / login?
- olivieramar 13y agoThey actually are, but the issue here isn't the easier login service, it's what kind of info they gain access to when they do. Some of the information makes ZERO sense with what the application or site actually do.
- aestra 13y agoWould you like to login with Facebook for easier account creation/login? Nope, if that's the only option, I'll opt to not take part in your service.
- lowmagnet 13y agoThe irony of this thing asking to post on fb/twitter then create yet another login is not lost on me.
- MichaelTieso 13y agoAll of which are optional it seems.
- olivieramar 13y agoOur service is free. As such, they only thing we ask, is that you pass on the word. The easiest way, is through social services, but we do that without asking you for any permissions whatsoever. Also think of it this way, where do people actually need protecting? On those exact social services :-)
- 01Michael10 13y agoCleanup your social media apps? How about delete your Facebook account to start 2014. Facebook is so 2010... I deleted my account years ago.
- LukeB_UK 13y agoDoes HN now stand for Hipster News?
- 01Michael10 13y agoWhat does this replay have to do with my comment? Why has my comment been down voted? The point of the post is social media apps cause a privacy concern. What about Facebook itself? This is like go remove a couple of small cancerous tumors but let's not treat the lung cancer.
- kayoone 13y agoi would, but FB is till the defacto standard to keep in touch with friends/contacts if you aren't living in the same city/country with them anymore.
- 01Michael10 13y agoEmail? IM? Skype? Text? The main reason I left Facebook was because of family members getting on it...
- MojoJolo 13y agoI think he has a point. My father, mother, and even my grandfather uses Facebook. Why are they using it? Because it enables them to keep in touch with their classmates and friends. Long lost friend especially. They are too long apart that email, IM, Skype, and text does not exist yet. Additionally, for email, IM, Skype, and text, you need to know their email address, username, or number to contact them. In Facebook, there's a chance that you can find them by just searching their name.
- wjk 13y ago0 have access to my facebook, how disappointingly satisfying.
- Murk 13y agoWhat is Facebook? On another note I have 132 text files with passwords in. The whole security thing isn't going to get easier.
- arvidjanson 13y agoNot sure if you're ironic, but just incase not: ever heard of 1password and similar apps? Cleans that right up!
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI check which apps have Facebook permissions and remove them all the time so 13 didn't surprise me (I wanted those 13 to have permissions). Twitter was more of a surprise with 45 - 41 of which can 'act on my behalf. Edit: Please change the title of this post (at time of writing it is: "92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account"). The service checks permissions for around 10 different sites - not just Facebook.
- benjlang 13y agoWhat would you suggest as the title of this post?
- k-mcgrady 13y agoSomething along the lines of "Check which apps have permission to your social media accounts"
- stevoo 13y agoNot catchy enough ... i wouldnt have clicked on that title.
- k-mcgrady 13y agoI'd rather not have link-bait titles as I'm less likely to click those.
- _cbb1 13y agoI thought this title got the point across, before clicking the link, I knew it would lead me to a page that will show me the knowledge on how to remove apps from social platforms.
- 650REDHAIR 13y agoIt was submitted by a "growth hacker" from the same venture firm that invested in MyPermissions. Better to submit with a link bait title now and have it changed by an admin than to submit with a proper title and never see the front page.
- C1D 13y agoThis is pretty shocking. I found out that 4 apps can access my inbox! I've removed all of them except for the gmail iOS app.
- mathattack 13y agoWow! Can you share what those 4 were?
- C1D 13y ago9gag, Mailbox, Immersion and Tumblr.
- mathattack 13y agoWithout using Mailbox, by name that's not surprising. The other 3 are a surprise.
- sethbannon 13y agoGreat service. It's a shame it's necessary. It's an (intentional) failing of UX design that makes it so difficult to know what apps have what permissions on the main social platforms.
- johnernaut 13y agoI recently had a spree of hack-attacks (or so I thought) via my Twitter account where it was making anonymous spammy tweets. I kept changing my password to no avail. I then realized that it was a service that I had given permissions to a long time ago that had been hacked and the attacker was spamming tweets through my account via that service.
- lhnz 13y agoOne thing that annoys me, re: permissions - when you signup for a service through Twitter, and the next time you try to login you forget that you used Twitter to sign-up so you click on LinkedIn. And the process continues until you've given permissions for every single social network account you own...
- blueskin_ 13y agoThis is one of many reasons why, if a service only supports facebook/linkedin/twitter/gmail/whatever login, I do a Tab Closed; Didn't Read on it.
- apiapi 13y agoThis is why Google+ login is more accepted than Facebook and others http://blog.oauth.io/the-oauth-report-1-social-logins/ http://blog.oauth.io/the-oauth-report-1-social-logins/
- smiro2000 13y agoAnyone else deleted all of them?
- pavanred 13y agoI tried the android app. Say, I check the permissions of my facebook account by logging in, I didn't find a way (at least a conspicuous one) to logout. And, I didn't find the point of forcing me to create a mypermissions account if I am allowed to login and use the app without me confirming my account via the confirmation mail. I might as well create an account using a fake or someone else's email.
- smockman36 13y agoI would love to see some stats from mypermissions.org on people's permissions
- captn3m0 13y agoSeeing as mypermissions.org is just a site with links, i think its just not possible. The most stat that they can get you is the number of people which click on a particular application link (say fb vs twitter) EDIT: I wrote the above when I didn't know about their chrome extension. That could perhaps be used for more stats.