I just removed the FB connect code from Pen.io - Causing automatic redirects for all logged in users. Luckily it was easy to kill for us and won't cause users any issue with logging in.
Facebook Connect was down
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#52Not only is it down, but it's redirecting everyone who visits a site with FB Connect on it to this error page. For example: http://www.economist.com
The site http://www.economist.com/ works fine for me, perhaps because I have never used Facebook to log into it. AFTER EDIT: Replying to the kind reply to this comment, I am ALWAYS logged in to Facebook (with AdBlock Plus and Social Fixer and Ghostery activated, using Chrome), and I was surfing all over the Web completely normally while sites were reported to be redirecting. So maybe something different about my set-…
With Ghostery running, it should not even load anything from a Facebook domain. The (buggy) code to redirect people to facebook.com would no doubt be served fromFacebook themselves. Stopping that code from being served to your browser means they can't redirect.
I absolutely love Ghostery and other related tools.
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#53I just removed the FB connect code from Pen.io - Causing automatic redirects for all logged in users. Luckily it was easy to kill for us and won't cause users any issue with logging in.
Our three sites are now free of Like buttons. It would be interesting to see how many disappeared today.
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#54memories of long nights hacking around facebook bugs... here's to paid services that don't need facebook!
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#55This pushed us to implement a kill switch for our facebook functionality. Something we'll keep in mind the next time we're integrating with third party services.
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#56Should we be surprised? Facebook Connect was deprecated in 2010 http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/facebook-kills-facebook-conne...
As a brand.
from the same article: " Instead, the company is standardizing the interactions between Facebook and third parties via Facebook's new Open Graph protocol and the OAuth 2.0 standard."
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#57Fitocracy had this earlier.
I poked around a bit. When you include Facebook's JS, it calls on a PHP file which (inter alia) returns a tag with a redirection instruction taking you to the broken page.
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#58This outage goes to show that a lot of people who have implemented Facebook Connect are doing it wrong. If the only way people can login to your website or application is via Facebook then you deserve every bit of downtime you get (cynical, but true). You should never solely rely third party service at any time, regardless of how big to fail they appear to be. Always allow a user to login more ways than one.
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#60It's still worth it.