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Re:Minimum Viable Self by stadium on Friday June 18, 2021 @11:25PM (#27557472)
> Facebook didn't and explicitly banned any sort of apps tat could log who saw your stuff.

Except for Cambridge Analytica, the "who unfriended me" apps, and a plethora of other apps that extracted and exploited Facebook data.

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Re:Minimum Viable Self by username90 on Saturday June 19, 2021 @04:43AM (#27558928)
How is that relevant at all? When people talk about privacy they care a million times more if their friends see what they do than if some big organization sees what they do. What I'm talking about is people getting a list of who viewed their content, that is they can see who viewed their beach pictures etc.
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Re:Minimum Viable Self by stadium on Saturday June 19, 2021 @12:46PM (#27562063)
It is relevant because Facebook is leaky by design, and it's misinformation to state that Facebook banned apps that gathered information on usage.

Why should they allow apps permissions to siphon off any info in the first place? Instead they ban them after being caught and plead ignorance.

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