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0 pointsscarlac5y ago0 comments

It used to be true that during a Facebook Connect session the user was asked if they wanted to share their email or not. I faintly remember you could even choose a proxy fb e-mail aka "fake email". Did they remove that feature?

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necovek5y ago

A party in OAuth authentication can request some obligatory information, and if email is part of it, you won't be able to deselect it.

In general, sites use email as an indication of a unique, real person. I imagine most of them do not really care about it afterwards, which is why the SSO systems even work (though, they can demand an email too).

joshuaissac5y ago

It was not that Facebook allowed the user to deselect the e-mail address from what would be shared. Rather, it allowed them to randomly generate an e-mail address to share with the other party. I think messages sent to this address were forwarded to the user's Facebook inbox.

And to answer scarlac's question, yes, they removed this feature a very long time ago.

necovek5y ago

Ah, thanks for the correction! :)

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necovek5y ago

A party in OAuth authentication can request some obligatory information, and if email is part of it, you won't be able to deselect it.

joshuaissac5y ago

And to answer scarlac's question, yes, they removed this feature a very long time ago.

necovek5y ago

Ah, thanks for the correction! :)

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