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I'd have to read the actual policy, but i think this would enable two cool things:

- Third party Facebook and messenger apps

- Bridges between Facebook and other social networks (where you have a FB proxy account that you don't touch manually)

Thinking of it, it seems unlikely that this is actually going to be allowed. More likely, they are talking about if Facebook makes e.g. their own Candy Crush, you are still allowed to keep the original on FB.

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I'd love a 3rd party Messenger client. I absolutely despise their app. It isn't even an IM client anymore - there are tons of irrelevant features that make it hard to use, e.g. the Games tab, the tab with bots and the Days.

And for the love of whatever, please let me use my phone's camera app.

Before you try to prove me wrong - are you sure you didn't just get used to it? Because I don't like to get used to stuff I don't like.

I switched to Facebook's own Messenger Lite app a while back and it's a huge improvement. I think it's aimed at third world users but it does everything I need it to do.

> - Third party Facebook and messenger apps

Are private messages on the API though? I haven't checked recently, but a few years ago I remember they weren't or had just been removed.

> - Bridges between Facebook and other social networks (where you have a FB proxy account that you don't touch manually)

This could be interesting.

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