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by axod 5865 days ago
Has anyone else been caught with random popups on facebook "offering" to link your profile interests to public pages?

It's really scammy. Once it pops up, you're trapped. Click on the facebook logo, and it doesn't take you home. There is no way out unless you either agree, or manually go back to facebook.com yourself.

What are they thinking doing crap like that...

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Even worse, once you close out of that page a few times and navigate back to facebook manually, at some point they just delete all of your interests, unprompted.

Totally obnoxious.

This is because they are replacing your interest with a linked page. The offer to link is the prompt.
Found it incredibly annoying. I haven't visited my profile since.
I changed everything to blatant lies, decreasing the value of the service.