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by lucasar 2239 days ago
You have no idea what you're talking about. Apps use the Facebook library because a good portion of end-users want to be able to login with a Facebook button --or Google, or whatever that doesn't require them to create a user/password account. It's just that simple.
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I have been witness to such business partnerships to embed SDKs to siphon telemetry/other data. The world is not as simple as you think...
well, this would be extremely believable
If you only need login, then you can have the same functionality without the Facebook SDK or Google SDK by using OAuth.