Facebook Gives Google The Middle Finger
Last week Google changed their Contacts API terms of service to block Facebook from importing a user's emails. Rather than obeying the terms, Facebook has come up with a hack around Google's existing system.
Last week Google changed their Contacts API terms of service to block Facebook from importing a user’s emails. Rather than obeying the terms, Facebook has come up with a hack around Google’s existing system, as first published by Techcrunch.
While Facebook doesn’t explicitly support Google contact imports (Google is not one of the services listed on their “Find Your Friends” page, you can enter your gmail address under “Other Email Service” and you will be sent to the following page:
This is a page that Google previously created to enable users to download all their data for their own use.
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