Facebook’s new features secretly add apps to your profile | Social Media | Macworld: “When a piece of software is automatically installed on your computer without your knowledge, it’s called malware. But what do you call it when Facebook apps are added to your profile without your knowledge? We discovered Wednesday that this is actually happening, and stopping it isn’t as easy as checking a box in your privacy settings”
Yes, Facebook is starting to do too much for you. When something occurs on my computer without my knowledge, or consent, I do consider that to be malicious. I even consider it to be Malicious when it is done to a service I use. I have a facebook account, but I don’t use it much. This website and my tweeting(@haebben) are all that I use at the moment. Facebook needs to do better about allowing people to opt out of so-called Features that add apps to your account.
(Via MacWorld.)
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