If You Like Links, You’ll Hate What Facebook Is Doing To Them - The Future Buzz

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Case in point, this weekend I tried to share a link to a story in The Guardian I found interesting. You’ll note (as I highlighted in a red box) even my browser recognized this was a link to the publication’s website, not Facebook.

However, due to how The Guardian has configured their site’s Facebook integration, anyone clicking the link is not taken to the expected URL. Instead a user is taken to this page to authorize use of The Guardian application.

Facebook is hijacking links to external websites of publications that have built social news apps on Facebook, and redirecting users to said internal Facebook apps. Ridiculous.

Sounds just like Facebook.

Source: chartier

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  1. happy-koi reblogged this from chartier
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  3. whurst reblogged this from chartier and added:
    Yet another reason Facebook is a blessing and a curse.
  4. everglade reblogged this from chartier
  5. tired-cto reblogged this from stoweboyd and added:
    I noticed this too recently and it drove me up a wall.
  6. lovingremixed reblogged this from clayblahblah and added:
    This is why I barely use Facebook anymore.
  7. singletron reblogged this from chartier and added:
    No. Facebook is not hijacking anything. The Guardian has integrated their site into the “Open Graph API”. Their site...
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  16. stoweboyd reblogged this from chartier and added:
    Sounds just like Facebook.
  17. ginzerak reblogged this from chartier and added:
    It’s worth clicking through to the entire article. chartier:
  18. spirograffe reblogged this from chartier and added:
    And this is why Facebook is evil. Join me on other things~!
  19. thunder-gods reblogged this from chartier
  20. This was featured in #Tech
  21. danielwpage reblogged this from chartier and added:
    This is going to be the thing that kills my use of Facebook. Twitter makes my links better by shortening them. Facebook...
  22. withapassion reblogged this from chartier and added:
    I god damn hate the Yahoo/Guardian/WaPost reading...facebooks. Now if I see a news link...
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