Facebook Working On Tool To Block All Third-Party Services

Yesterday evening Mark Zuckerberg published an article in the Washington Post, providing an update on the impending privacy changes. Included in his statement was a sentence which should put many developers on edge, “We will also give you an easy way to turn off all third-party services.” While I doubt Facebook would want to let users block all applications, it sounds like this is exactly what the company is working on.

We reached out to the company for clarification on the issue, and while they are not sharing details on the exact implementation, Andrew Noyes of Facebook provided the following statement:

We’ve spent the last couple of weeks listening to users and consulting with experts in California, Washington, D.C.,

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