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Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users' Pics

Posted by timothy on from the not-k-osher dept.

Znarl writes with a report from Joe Brockmeier, who writes that: "KDE users have gotten a rather unpleasant surprise from Facebook: Not only is the site blocking KDE apps like Gwenview from uploading, the social media giant has also taken down photos uploaded with the KDE plugins. Yet another reason that users might think twice before depending on Facebook for photo storage."

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  1. Scaled down photos by CommanderEl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've never used Facebook for any pro photos or photos that demand a level of detail to appreciate them. Facebook blows for displaying photos anyway because of the sheer fact that your photos are scaled down to a disgusting quality that's not even good enough to use for print. I can understand why the do this (!!!) but it's such a shame because facebook is a wonderful delivery mechanism of information and media.
    Use Picasa, it's not made by a wannabe evil, world dominating organisation.

    1. Re:Scaled down photos by Chrisq · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Use Picasa, it's not made by a wannabe evil, world dominating organisation.

      Priceless!

      Well google may not wannabe evil but it proves that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

  2. Facebook? by AffidavitDonda · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What's Facebook?

  3. Re:My guess by waddgodd · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, because facebook totally cares about spam

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  4. Re:My guess by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm Facebook. How do I know that the API key floating in the wild - in KDE sources - is not being used to send not-sufficiently-paid-for spam?

    FTFY

  5. your time on facebook is the product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Second last paragraph, last sentence.
    "your ... time spent on Facebook are the product."
    Which means that any app that allows you to participate on Facebook without spending time on Facebook is a threat to Facebook's business model.

  6. Autobot rampage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "NOTE: The ban-bot appears to be out of control. Apps are being banned with no warning and no email. The forum moderators are trying to get someone from Facebook to investigate."
    http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=93361

  7. Re:as a free software and facebook user... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because they can. Now go back to tending crop in Farmvile, Peon.

  8. Re:My guess by dmbasso · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They care about unpaid spam.

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  9. Re:My guess by QuoteMstr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Do we really have to re-learn the same lessons every 5-10 years? Trust users, not programs; don't trust the client; security through obscurity is no security at all: these are fundamental concepts, but we keep forgetting them.

    What exactly is the point of the API key? Anything an application can do, a user with access to that application can do. Spammers can extract a key from application and pretend to be that application. You stop spam at the user level.

  10. Re:facebook by TheRaven64 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nope. They didn't delete them, they just removed the users' access to them. According to their T&Cs, they're still allowed to sell copies of the photos to third parties...

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