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Facebook's Privacy Fixes Have Broken Tinder (theverge.com)
Since the recent Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal, Facebook has been rolling out more security and data privacy updates. "Today, however, the company announced sweeping changes to many of its most prominent APIs, restricting develop access in a number of crucial ways," reports The Verge. "Soon after, Tinder users started noting on Twitter that they had been kicked off the dating app and couldn't log back on, as those who used Facebook Login were caught in an infinite loop that appears to be related to an unknown bug." From the report: The app has been bringing up an error message to booted users, titled Facebook Permissions, stating that users need to provide more Facebook permissions in order to create or use a Tinder account. If users tap "Ask me," which is the only given option, the app requests they log into Facebook once more and the loop starts again. Roderick Hsiao, a senior software engineer at Tinder, tweeted that users could still access the service through its web browser while engineers worked on fixing the mobile client.
A day of reckoning. We're all going to get our due. Meanwhile, I've got lots of popcorn ready, just need more butter.
Life is not for the lazy.
Grindr still works fine.
Did Tinder collude with Trump or with Hillary?
All in the subject.
Tinder deserves it for depending on somebody else's platform that can be changed on a whim.
Maybe, just maybe, when it stops them from banging, people start to realize, that they double-sold their soul to facebook after starting to use facebook sign-on in 3rd party apps...
Holy fuck, you use Facebook ... as your login to Tinder ... and when that breaks, you turn to Twitter to bitch about it?
Why the fuck you would use your Facebook as a login for every other site is beyond me. Sure, it's convenient, but at that point you've decided Facebook should be integrated into every aspect of your life.
Fuck, there's no hope for humanity. This social media shit has created a world full of fucking morons.
You idiots deserve what you get.
I know this is dumb, but why are sites trusting FB to do their gatekeeping for them? FB doesn't have any certifications or compliance. They do not sell themselves as this, but other companies use them for this purpose. We don't even know if FB does password hashing.
Hello software programmers; its called regression testing. You do it after making major changes to check if you have broken anything. I think it's ususlly taught in CompSci 101.
STD rates should start dropping with Tinder down.
Dates with Palmela Handerson on the agenda.
I've had this conversation with multiple people in academic/research contexts. We want single sign-on, and we want to reduce the proliferation of accounts that people need, and the suggestion keeps coming up that we use Facebook as authentication for various systems. Now, for the things we're talking about, security is probably not the biggest concern (low-value, low visibility target with access to niche data that most attackers wouldn't know what to do with). But Facebook has no guarantee of a stable API, I have no idea what it would take to get a support contract for authentication, there are any number of institutional policies that would prevent using it, ... and the list goes on. People like the idea because it sounds easy, but it's a terrible idea for a lot of reasons.
I hate Facebook as much as everyone else, but let's be honest here - this is Tinder's fault probably for asking for way more info than should be required just to use Facebook's SSO feature. Facebook didn't break anything.
Maybe Tinder shouldn't base their entire business model on the good graces of Facebook.
If you just want sign-on, FB's API is OAuth based and mostly standard. I wouldn't worry about it unless you're actually using it to scrape the user graph or somehow impersonate the user's actions on FB (like leaving a comment in their name).
What I take from this is that Tinder could have just been caught riding piggyback on Facebook's lack of security and, therefore, may have a few other secrets to contribute to this whole tech-behemoth debacle.