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Google Asks Users To Complain Against Facebook

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the battle-of-the-billions dept.

dkd903 writes "A kind of war has been going on recently between Facebook and Google over a contact export issue. First, Google blocked Facebook access to the Gmail contacts API. To this, Facebook responded back with a new method to get Gmail contacts of a user (the download contacts option). And now Google has slapped back again at Facebook and asks users indirectly to file a data protectionism complaint against Facebook. When a Facebook user clicks on the Download Your Contacts button on the 'Facebook import contact via Gmail' page, the user is then redirected to a new page on Google's server, which looks something like this..." Can I just say that watching this is absolutely hysterical?

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  1. Been There Before by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Three hundred people called. They want the stuff back that Microsoft swiped and then locked in proprietary formats.

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    My first Journal Entry ever, in 8 years! http://slashdot.org/journal/365947/aphelion-scifi-fantasy-horror-poetry-webzine
  2. Re:I Did What They Told Me To! by wickerprints · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh I *so* wish I had mod points today. I just about died laughing.