This is just getting silly. Yesterday, we
reported on a new Chrome extension created by a developer that allowed you to scrape your Facebook contact information. Called ?Facebook Doesn?t Own My Friends,? the extension provided a work around to import your friends contact information on Facebook into Gmail and CSV files. As we noted in our post, it appears that the extension has been taken down. It's unclear who has actually taken the exporter down, but the implications are clear. The only companies that will provide these technologies are Facebook and Google, and this will probably involve a peace treaty of some sort. So what got us to this dark place where ten minutes after the workaround was posted on TechCrunch, it was taken down? Nearly a month ago, Google began
blocking Facebook API access to download Google contacts. Facebook
hacked its way around that, and Google subsequently issued a statement that they were
?disappointed?. Facebook Platform engineer Mike Vernal
then responded in the comments of one of our blog posts about the slap fight, defending Facebook's policy and calling it "consistent".
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