Facebook and Instagram have announced a set of API shutdowns and changes designed to stop developers from being able to pull your data or your friends’ data without express permission, drag in public content or trick you into sharing. Following its recent spate of disasters, Facebook seems to be attempting to make good on Mark Zuckerberg’s promise to prioritize user safety and data privacy over its developer platform. Some of these changes go into effect immediately, and others roll out on August 1, so developers have some time to comply. For context, APIs or Application Programming Interfaces are a software layer that allows applications to access features or data from a platform like Facebook. Apps can no longer post from your account One of the biggest changes will impact apps that use a Facebook Login (Facebook Login API), going forward all new apps will no longer have permission “to publish posts to Facebook as the logged in user.” For existing apps, this permission will be revoked on August 1st. Up until now, users could give permissions to certain apps to post on their behalf, for example, certain games on Facebook would make a post from your profile if you unlocked a new level or obtained a new virtual item. More often than not these posts were spam, ads that tried to get your friends to sign up for the app. Facebook offered users the option to opt out but this was not feasible for all apps, some required this condition in…
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