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Unless I'm wrong, these are sites you have authorized via Facebook connect. They were always there. (Any site using facebook connect is an "app") And they always showed your friends who have also "connected" to that site.

(Edit: Seems to be confusion between "Recently Used" and "Authorized")

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Sorry, you are wrong. No authorization is required.

Well then somehow it skipped adding them to my profile. Any app that shows installed for me is one I authorized.

An event that trigged it for me: visiting break.com (after previously logging into facebook) resulted in a Break application being added without consent.

I can not duplicate.. I even "Liked" break and it doesn't show up for me.

These are under the "Authorized" applications or just "recently used" ?

I just signed up to an eventbrite event and the eventbrite application is now installed, I declined the facebook connect notification

"Authorized" or just under "recently used"?

It is disconcerting that they show under recently used, but in no way is facebook adding "Authorized" apps at random to peoples profiles.

"recently used" for me. I didn't take the time to check "authorized" before logging out.

I think that is the rub here.. Somehow they are showing as "recently used" which is completely different from "Authorized". The app does not get a session key from you and has no additional permissions or access to your account.

The friends thing mentioned in the article has always been that way. Every connect site is an app, go to an app you can see friends who have installed it, as it always has

I've been pretty anal-retentive about blocking apps, setting app access, etc. for some time now and educating my "friends" on how to do this. I'm very aware of when I authorize an application and have used FB Connect twice a long time ago on sites that did not show up as unsolicited apps. Sites I visited this morning, however, are showing up. I never logged in to those sites (or have any kind of account, made a comment etc). This unauthorized "installation" is very much happening.

I'm quite sure that's not true, since I never use facebook connect and a couple apps for websites I have recently visited showed up in there.

If you select "Authorized" from the application settings drop down you see these applications?

I have visited hundred of sites that use Facebook connect and not connected and none of them have ever shown up

timmaah, are you sure you're not doing something "unusual" here? A browser that this doesn't work on, no-script, browser security settings maybe? Just wondering how you avoided it.

Nope.. I think it is just people are hyper sensitive (as they should be) to fb privacy this week and have noticed something that has always been there. There (for whatever reason) is a difference between "Recently used" and "Authorized"

(But still I don't see them under "recently used".. no idea why)

I see it. I didn't authorize

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