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Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
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Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
#22I managed to use it to export my contacts about an hour ago. Successfully imported them in to Gmail and G+. Strange. I highly doubt that it is illegal, but it certainly breaks FB's TOS.
How did you import the contacts into G+?
You can import FB contacts to Yahoo. And then G+ can import them from Yahoo!
Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
#23Actually they did not restrict the access to your own data, but to a specific method of accessing them. Which, I am quite sure, is no legal issue for anybody
Yes, but you know, I have ~ 122 friends. And I invited like 40 of them to join Facebook. Now, those 122 friends are fully aware that their public email addresses and phone numbers are available to me. Those that do not want this, should not publish their emails or phone numbers or should not befriend me. What Facebook is doing here is to make it hard to export my list of friends to other places, like Google's contact…
I disagree that it is your data. If I befriend you on Facebook I am not giving you permission to bulk import my information into any old website which may or may not treat that information respectfully. People are focused on Google but forget that if they enabled this your information could be bulk imported into schemy websites who only want the data to spam. Even if those applications get banned it's too late if you're the one getting spammed and your information sold to other spam lists.
The key here is that Facebook relationships are not people you trust. They are people you kind sorta know. That doesn't imply that they are trustworthy enough to hand over your personal information to do whatever they wish with.
Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, but you know, I have ~ 122 friends. And I invited like 40 of them to join Facebook. Now, those 122 friends are fully aware that their public email addresses and phone numbers are available to me. Those that do not want this, should not publish their emails or phone numbers or should not befriend me. What Facebook is doing here is to make it hard to export my list of friends to other places, like Google's contact…
I disagree that it is your data. If I befriend you on Facebook I am not giving you permission to bulk import my information into any old website which may or may not treat that information respectfully. People are focused on Google but forget that if they enabled this your information could be bulk imported into schemy websites who only want the data to spam. Even if those applications get banned it's too late if you…
Don't fool yourself. If they're not that trustworthy, you shouldn't be friending them, because preventing known Chrome extensions from doing this does not prevent the other 5000 ways (including a pen and paper) of doing the same thing.
Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
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Their "Download my information" option excludes users' email, which makes it mostly useless for exporting your graph.
Furthermore, if they were worried about server load, they would block queries altogether. Instead, what they're doing now is just hiding the email addresses if an IP address queries too rapidly. I don't think there is any explanation besides data protectionism.
Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree that it is your data. If I befriend you on Facebook I am not giving you permission to bulk import my information into any old website which may or may not treat that information respectfully. People are focused on Google but forget that if they enabled this your information could be bulk imported into schemy websites who only want the data to spam. Even if those applications get banned it's too late if you…
Don't fool yourself. If they're not that trustworthy, you shouldn't be friending them, because preventing known Chrome extensions from doing this does not prevent the other 5000 ways (including a pen and paper) of doing the same thing.
If I only befriended people I trust with my personal data my profile would have a half a dozen friends, or less. Making it difficult for people to do something stupid is a superior strategy to making it easy for them to do so.
Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
#28There's always various scrapers, like this http://vytautas.jakutis.name/2011/05/27/convert-your-faceboo... by me.
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... Their "Download my information" option excludes users' email, which makes it mostly useless for exporting your graph. Furthermore, if they were worried about server load, they would block queries altogether. Instead, what they're doing now is just hiding the email addresses if an IP address queries too rapidly. I don't think there is any explanation besides data protectionism.
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Re: Facebook blocks Google Chrome extension for exporting friends
#30G+ should allow you to import your Facebook data if you download it using Facebook's own export tool.
Facebook's "export tool" generates an incomplete static HTML version of some of the data you put into Facebook. The friend list wouldn't really be of any use unless people had unique names.