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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by nojvek on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:30PM (#22436175)
Most VC backed apps like Notion, AirTable, Dropbox and a bunch of others do this when using Google Auth to log in. It seems very common tactic (prolly coming from Marketing & Growth). Google makes it very easy to share your contact list.

When logging in the permissions are (will see your email and contact list). AirTable makes it very very hard to login with GAuth without giving permissions to your contact list.

I feel Google should just disable that permission, it’s abused.

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Re:‘People You May Know’ helped Facebook grow exponentially by giancarlostoro on Thursday February 27, 2020 @01:44PM (#22436345)
> I feel Google should just disable that permission, it’s abused.

I should have total control over what parts are given to a third party from my email. Much like Android / iOS permission prompts.

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