Oleg Zabluda's blog
Thursday, December 20, 2018
 
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- Facebook had some messages API for developers ( which apps can act as messenger client ), some kind of allowing 3rd party messenger applications, those had all access to messages, conversations, contacts (friends) etc

- Then Facebook deprecated this API

- Probably after that, someone came up with this ideas about sharing stuff on messenger, (song on spotify case, movie on netflix etc etc)

- Then someone in facebook figured out they can use this old API ( in the end they trust those names, they want to do minimal development for this stuff etc )

- So they whitelisted those apps for this deprecated API
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Facebook asked users for permission to grant the apps the permission to send messages, and then when the users approved that request, implemented that access by white-listing the applications to give them carte-blanche access to a deprecated API that included not just message-sending abilities, but full read-write access to their entire Messenger history, along with the rest of the deprecated Instant Personalization API.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706522
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18706522

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