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by SonicSoul 4434 days ago
I've been wondering about this..

on the web, anonymous login would be just a code snippet. What would prevent anyone from showing regular FB login posing as anonymous? Only thing I can think of regular login should have a follow up dialog with confirmation of what's requested, but maybe that can be auto confirmed too? some users may still agree to follow up screen if they trust the anonymous icon.
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lnanek2 4434 days ago
From the site, it looks like the FB login page you get after clicking the button is all black, and then you get sent back to the app. The regular one would be in the normal colors. Although I suppose they could popup a fake anon one on their own site, but they wouldn't have the right URL. On Android the app allows login without entering a password as well, so I'd immediately know because login through FB doesn't require my password but the app's fake version would.
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SonicSoul 4434 days ago
the question was about posing non anonymous FB login as anonymous to trick users into giving more info about themselves. neither should require a password if yo're already logged into FB.
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