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by SilasX 2744 days ago
I assume they could have done some kind of "firewalled plugin" architecture? Where there's Facebook code running alongside Spotify code but where the latter has no access to what the former is doing?

Edit: But more generally, this seems like a hard thing to get right, and I just don't see the mind-blowing value-add of being able to FB-message within Spotify!!omg that would justify it.
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danabramov 2744 days ago
Which is probably why these features were removed three years ago.
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SilasX 2744 days ago
Not by itself it doesn’t answer that. Why 3 years ago rather than 1 year or “this is stupid, why give Spotify access to all PMs on our system just so a user can send and view PMs within the third party app?
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