I’m confused why ppl talk about hundreds or thousands of apps that scraped data. In 2012 Facebook bragged about million of apps on its platform, 3 years before it cut off access. Read this analysis: https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-thinking-a1c49dbf29c2 …
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Totally. Not knocking you. Just think the scope of the problem is far larger than people realize. It could be millions of apps that behaved in bad faith. It’s a safe assumption that all of the data exposed by the API for everyone is out there… and it’ll be preserved too. :-/
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Exactly. And this is how it played out, millions of times over: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16642243 …pic.twitter.com/8E8tPBoIMR
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Wouldn’t be surprised if thousands of apps behaved like CA’s quiz—kept data.