Déjà Vu? Facebook Blocks Another Contacts Exporter

For the second time in less than a week, Facebook pulled the plug on a tool that allows users to migrate their friend lists to other applications.

For the second time in less than a week, Facebook pulled the plug on a tool that allows users to migrate their friend lists to other applications.

This time, the “victim” was Open-Xchange, which creates open-source email and collaboration software, as CNET’s DeepTech reported that the social network disabled the application-programming interface behind a tool Open-Xchange created to extract the first and last names from Facebook users’ friend lists.

As reported by DeepTech, Facebook’s response to Open-Xchange was as follows:

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