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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by renaudg on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:05PM (#11444132)
Even for read operations : forcing you to log in is the only way Facebook has to enforce the non-public privacy setting the content creator may have set.

Conversely, anyone with or without an account can view public Facebook posts.

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Re:Facebook is King, Other Networks Fight for Scraps by artursapek on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @10:51PM (#11444346)
This wasn't them respecting a privacy setting. The content was still very accessible, just inconveniently so.
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