[OpenID] Facebook support for OpenID. Where?

[Andrew Arnott]

Don't look at me.  My reading of Peter Watkins' email was that this is the
value-add Facebook has for offering Facebook Connect over just being a
standard OpenID Provider.  I was just asking whether it was legitimate.

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Andrew Arnott
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On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Andrew Arnott <andrewarnott at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Has Facebook made any concessions or promises about whether they leverage
>> their opportunity to scrape user data from all these .js HTTP GETs?  Maybe
>> they don't use it and it's no big deal to them to not have that source of
>> data.  It may be an innocent consequence of offering the .js on every page
>> of an RP.
>>
>> (halo on head must assume good intentions everywhere. :-p)
>>
>
> Not sure I understand what you mean? Are you asking about whether
> Facebook's cross-domain receiver that enables Facebook Connect is scraping
> data on the relying party sites?
>
> That seems somewhat odd and paranoid to me. I presume that you ask the same
> thing about every site that uses Google Analytics — where quite obviously
> data is being scraped and computed against?
>
> In any case, I don't have an answer to your question, but I'm pretty sure
> Facebook has more pressing things to worry about — namely making its
> platform more valuable — after all, they already know just about everything
> about you... because you told them! ;)
>
> Chris
>
>
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