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Clean Your App Permissions in 2 Minutes

144 pointsby benjlangover 13 years ago

11 comments

phillmvover 13 years ago
1. It's <i>extremely hateful</i> to see how much information Facebook shares, and by default. I am fairly certain I never saw a permissions dialog to a lot of these sites.<p>I also really hate how you can't allow or deny any given permission; 99% of apps I've seen use Twitter or Facebook as a single sign on. There is absolutely no reason for any of these to have that much access to personal information.<p>2. It requires Facebook in order to leave a comment? I extremely hate how this has become a "thing". I mourn the loss of anonymity on the internet.<p>3. The above site could be great for phishing.
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padobsonover 13 years ago
Is it just me, or is Facebook the furthest behind on all things user experience? Case in point: three clicks to remove access from an app on Facebook (1. Click 'X" 2. Click 'Remove' 3. Click 'OK'). On Twitter, it was one click, and if you want to change it, there's an "undo" button right there waiting for you.<p>Mix in that every incarnation of Facebook's own clients is almost completely different (iPhone vs. iPad vs. Android vs. Web), and you have a user experience nightmare. 90% of the phone calls I get from non-technical friends and family are "How do I do X on Facebook?". The first question I always have to ask: "Are you on an App or on the web?"
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peteretepover 13 years ago
Anyone else find absolutely no surprises here? I guess I am just anal about denying things access unless they need it...
PStamatiouover 13 years ago
Nice! Just revoked access to about 40 things on Twitter , 30 on Flickr, 15 on Google, a handful on LinkedIn, 11 on dropbox, and about 150 (yikes!) on Facebook.
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hkolkover 13 years ago
"Now click the icons and get ready for a surprise!". I was not surprised. Although one annoying thing is that Facebook auto-auths some websites such as Rotten Tomatoes. (Afaik it has that also for Yelp)
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Groxxover 13 years ago
Awesome site, thanks for creating it! I tend to keep mine pretty clean, but it's such a PITA to hunt down all the dangling ends that shortcuts are very much appreciated :)
Joe_Pineapplesover 13 years ago
That surprised me a bit. I knew my facebook would have zero as I'm careful about that but twitter had a couple I didn't know about, as did dropbox.
sacriliciousover 13 years ago
This inspired me to clean up my Boxcar too, and therefore see how little Github is notifying me about....
Scaevolusover 13 years ago
Neat idea!<p>The Google Accounts button links to a Hebrew translation, "hl=iw" shouldn't be there.
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mark_l_watsonover 13 years ago
Thank you! Very useful.
erummeeover 13 years ago
clean,thank u