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0 pointsnetcan12y ago0 comments

It's not just anti-phishing, IMO.

Even if they realize there is a consensual relationship going on between newsite.com & facebook, people don't know what's going on. Does this give newsite.com the ability to see my friends? Spam them? Does this give facebook access to my newsite.com stuff?

Is 'sign in with google" like that time linkedin had access my gmail and spammed everyone?

I think that's a grayer area than phising and something more people have actually been bitten by.

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HelloNurse12y ago

Not very often, let's say 20% of the time, I decide that the signing in some site to comment on a blog or create a quasi-account using Facebook is unlikely to be a privacy problem: I'm willing to give site X my main email address, even to receive newsletters and commercial offers.

At this point, Facebook asks me to share my friends list (often much more) with site X: the only rational response is scrambling for the "close tab" button in the browser and writing off site X as untrustworthy jerks, because they dared to ask for unneeded personal information.

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