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by Nextgrid 1326 days ago
Or WhatsApp for that matter, which has access to a lot more people's contacts, even those who might otherwise deny contacts permission to Facebook Messenger.
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And people call me still crazy because I haven't given WhatsApp access to my contact list...

While I understant that it helps only a little since all my friends have given.

I learned my lesson about that the hard way back in the early 00s

I logged into LinkedIn, and it seemed like it was loading, but then the login failed and it prompted me to log in again. I tried and it didn't work, then looked more carefully.. and the second login prompt was actually a "Give us your e-mail login so we can scrape all your contacts and spam them" prompt.

Hoo boy, glad I was using separate passwords for everything