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Before anyone says Facebook's testimony is just fluff, we're a business that relies on Facebook's API to monitor activity, and we've been severely impacted. We no longer can get data as before - it's having a large effect on our business. So we definitely feel that action is being taken.

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Would you be able to explain what you used to do and have access to and what has changed? It would be interesting to hear an advertisers view.

We no longer can get data as before - it's having a large effect on our business

What sort of honest business depends on the Facebook API?

We were scraping data for a client for public events like music shows, business special days/etc, and that's been severely shut down and apparently on hold to approve any new apps. Again this is just getting like the date/location/ticket URL for a public page FB event that presumably businesses want people to know about - no private data about attendees/humans at all.

That seems like a legitimate use case.

(it was a genuine question!)

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