I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

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Post by chadrs » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 7:41 PM UTC

I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this
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Re: I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

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Post by MartinMond » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 7:57 PM UTC

Wow this is incredibly cool! Can you also package it as a Safari extension?

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Post by Swizec » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 7:57 PM UTC

This looks awesome! Some sites certainly ask for way more than I am comfortable sharing.

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Post by dylangs1030 » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:03 PM UTC

I like this so much, I may fork it and port it to Firefox...thank you for making one of the most practical extensions I've seen in a while.

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Post by msumpter » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:08 PM UTC

Awesome extension!

I just wish Facebook would include this as a standard option on the auth page. It would be great to just uncheck the things I don't want it to do on my behalf. Instead I was allowing the app and then editing it's permissions immediately afterward.

Great job!

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Post by LambergaR » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:08 PM UTC

You're my hero :)

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Post by there » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:10 PM UTC

i've just started working with the facebook api over the weekend to integrate into an app i've built and every permission requested has a checkbox next to it on facebook's auth dialog to allow the user to reject it.

http://i.imgur.com/v4jAU.png

are those apps using a different api than the open graph? i don't see any setting in my app's page on facebook to allow those to be disabled (not that i would prevent users from doing it, just wondering).

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Post by burgerbrain » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:10 PM UTC

I would have never suspected that this would actually work. Right on!

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Post by singingwolfboy » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:12 PM UTC

<3

Re: I was annoyed with sites asking for too many Facebook privileges and made this

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Post by chadrs » Mon, Nov 28, 2011, 8:13 PM UTC

MartinMond wrote: post #2

Wow this is incredibly cool! Can you also package it as a Safari extension?

Presumably, I've never looked into Safari extensions though.