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by modeless 1345 days ago
I like GitHub based comment systems like Utterances and Giscus, but when you try to leave a comment you get a permission request page that says it can "act on your behalf" in your account which is ridiculously broad (and I think not actually true?). Will they be able to fix that now?
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"Act on your behalf" is a common (and not great) way of indicating that the app will do <above permissions> wearing your nametag. It doesn't give the app blanket permissions against your account, just that it gets to do the above things _in your name_ rather than just as itself (`modeless posted this comment` versus `Utterances posted this comment`)