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chartier:

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.

I noticed this too recently and it drove me up a wall.

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   Yet another reason Facebook is a blessing and a curse.

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   I noticed this too recently and it drove me up a wall.

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   This is why I barely use Facebook anymore.

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    No. Facebook is not hijacking anything. The Guardian has integrated their site into the “Open Graph API”. Their site...

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    Sounds just like Facebook.

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    It’s worth clicking through to the entire article. chartier:

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    And this is why Facebook is evil. Join me on other things~!

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    This is going to be the thing that kills my use of Facebook. Twitter makes my links better by shortening them. Facebook...

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    I god damn hate the Yahoo/Guardian/WaPost reading...facebooks. Now if I see a news link...

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