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Facebook Adds a Login Shortcut To Other Android Apps (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Today at F8, Facebook announced it's giving the developers of third-party Android apps the ability to recognize if you've already linked a service with the social network. Soon when you download or reinstall something like Pinterest, you won't have to wonder what your password is if you've already installed Facebook. The supported app will prompt you to log in via the social network. The social network is also giving third-party developers the opportunity to use Facebook as an account recovery solution for when you forget your password.
They are so helpful. Always trying to help out.
they will add cloud storage and office suite
Be or ben't
Google already offers something like this for some apps. Now if only MS, Apple, Amazon et cetera would follow suit, it would seem to make our lives a lot easier without restricting someone to a specific cloud provider. Of course, I can see a whole range of opportunities here - reduced priced apps if you use a specific login authenticator, for example, or bonuses across related apps through marketing promotions. All delivered of course by your friendly neighborhood app platforms.
If only these companies got something useful in return...
I have less trust of Facebook than any other provider out there. Sorry, no dice, not using it for anything but Facebook itself.
Many of the fine reasons to trust the Zuck are here: http://www.truthhawk.com/is-fa...
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
Soon when you download or reinstall something like Pinterest, you won't have to wonder what your password is if you've already installed Facebook. The supported app will prompt you to log in via the social network.
WRONG!
Why would I want to use Facebook as my security login. I don't use or trust them. Very poor security.
And I won't. Not that I don't trust them, because I don't, nor that I don't think their security is sufficient, because it doesn't matter.
I use Google passwords by default some, and not for many things. Some social sites and such I consider noncritical, and those I'll let a password manager/login helper work for, but some I cannot trust to any system.
And Facebook is proving to be untrustworthy in many areas - 'fact checking' is anything but, censorship is becoming common and biased, which it always is, and the management of my feed proves they cannot be trusted to do what I expect them to do. No surprise there.
They can't even show me what I want to see.
So no thank you, but Facebook is not trustworthy to me. And it is less and less important to me every day.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
you won't have to wonder what your password is if you've already installed Facebook as all your passwords and contacts and bank details are already slurped and stored in the cloud.
I don't install Facebook messenger, don't install the Facebook app, and damn sure don't want to log in to other applications or sites using my Facebook information.
Seriously, WTF? There is already enough associative information floating around the internet and databases without me connecting even more dots for all the three-letter agencies and "big business" and so on. Piss on Facebook "making it easier" for anyone but themselves and their business partners.
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Live as if you'll die tomorrow.
~Anonymous~
Sounds great for marketing types who want to incentivize the installation of their crapware, otherwise hell no. Single sign on is bad for reasons which should be obvious to the slashdot userbase.
I had set my bar higher than this. Not interesting, nor needed. On a par with cute cat videos.
One of these days I am going to have to try this thing they call facebook.
Facebook employees added their lips to my gooey round brown orifice and lapped my seed orally gratifying me while they penetrated themselves with rusty bent rebar. The pink vagina hats and pajamas were a nice touch.
Just can't get enough of that fucking FaceBook.
Is why I refuse to have Facebook on my mobile devices.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Please disable immediately.
uBlock Origin, allows me to block all things Facebook.