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by calvinlai 5123 days ago
To clarify, publish_stream is a superset permission that includes publish_actions. That's why you're not seeing it.

While I agree with you that it removes a step in the funnel, we still need read_stream to provide our advertised service, that is pulling videos that your friends post on Facebook. read_stream is also an extended permission so we can't get around that additional screen anyway.

However, I've read that less permissions means a higher conversion rate so we may experiment with removing publish_stream and only asking for read_stream + publish_actions and we'll see what happens.

Thanks for all your input!