HTTP:: Block All Quiz App Instances on Facebook
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Facebook apps can be fun and sometimes useful. But sometimes they can become extremely annoying especially when they go viral and you start getting flooded with the same one from all of your friends. Of course, you can easily choose to hide all instances of an app never to be bothered by it again, but recently quiz apps have become increasingly popular and increasingly annoying. And things are about to get a lot worse as Facebook has made the creation of this type of apps significantly easier. The good news though is that it's also made avoiding them easier too. “Many websites are looking for ways to integrate Facebook Connect, such as commenting using Facebook identity or showing visitors their Facebook friends' recent activity,†Vishu Gupta, a Facebook software engineer, wrote. “Today, we're making this even easier for users to easily integrate Facebook on their websites and widgets with the launch of the Create Application API. Every website that wants to integra!
te with Facebook needs an API key. The Create Application API allows widget providers to programmatically generate this API key and other necessary settings.†What all that means is that developers can now create Facebook apps that greatly simplify the process of creating “child applications†based on the origi...
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