> Guess what: the majority of FB's user base does not care about privacy as much as you do. Even people who do care to an extent, and don't implicitly trust FB,

> Guess what: the majority of FB's user base does not care about privacy as much as you do. Even people who do care to an extent, and don't implicitly trust FB, are at least comfortable with some level of interaction and sharing on the platform. I don't mind this behavior/attitude of not caring because it has allowed many people to experiment with actively exfiltrating data out from behind these walled gardens through various means (some of which have been posted to HN from time to time over the years) without bothering going through OAuth and the like. And increasingly, users behind many of these walled gardens will see the false sense of security they have been offered when people/companies other than facebook can actively leverage and profiteer from "their" data. Once the data is out in the wild, whether facebook gives permission or not is moot.