I’m getting a bit tired of these articles. Yes, today, this is considered a bad thing now that we know how many ways it can be exploited. But back when Facebook started, this was a feature and a goal. They even created the ‘OpenGraph’ allowing anyone to use this data. https://twitter.com/techmeme/status/1380764083239092225

Here is a tweet I posted in 2010: https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/12589690524

More than that, in the past some of the companies taking advantage of this was ....wait for it... publishers. As I explained in this thread: https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/1113906922418266118

So I don’t get the ‘outrage’ and ‘surprise’ now displayed by the press. This was not secret. This was not a security flaw. This was a feature that everyone used...including the press.