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It's not troubling at all, this setting will be buried in the bowels of the privacy page. 1% of users will actually opt-out.

"There is going to be hundreds of millions of people who will never even know that they're recommending products to people, and that's bad."

Why? Exactly what is the moral outrage that when a person 'likes' Starbucks that that information is displayed to their friends? What did they think was going to happen?

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Since they are not told, in any reasonably accessible way, what is going to happen when they click "like", they have grounds to complain about anything that does.

You have to assume anything you do is public and can be used in anyway possible, unless you've been told otherwise.

Right or wrong, that's the nature of these things.

That's not entirely true. I don't think "You ass anything you do is pubic" is a valid MichaelApproved quote. Now, i don't know how you could misrepresent a like, but i don't think substantial misrepresentation (like my ridiculously juvenile example) is allowed.

Whether it's right or wrong is exactly the issue under discussion.

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