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by ilovecaching 2744 days ago
>The fact that Facebook botched it up is not less problematic than Facebook selling data because the outcome for users is more or less the same.

Users signed in to services they already had accounts with, and therefore trusted, knowing they were enabling features they wanted to use with their data. These services were hand selected big name companies. This is a far cry from selling data to the highest bidder for profit.