Re: Forbes Website and Contact Sharing Requirement

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

It looks like it gets even worse. Forbes might be shipping the data
off to a company controlling gigya.com.
http://postimage.org/image/cjzwzq2wn/

The screen capture was from a Wireshark trace while exercising the
"post comment" functionality (Google Oauth, and then "No Thanks" on
contact sharing).

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com> wrote:
> I was reading http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/01/07/has-microsoft-tried-to-make-windows-8-too-secure/,
> and wanted to leave a comment on vendor lock-in on vendor application
> stores and vendor clouds (anti-trust FTW!).
>
> It appears Forbes uses OAuth, so I tried to use it against my Goggle
> account. Forbes asked that I share my google contacts.
> http://postimage.org/image/l03hq6oc7/.
>
> When I declined the sharing of my contacts, Forbes would not allow me
> to continue. It seems they were "requiring" and not "asking".
>
> That's a fairly flagrant party foul.....
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