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Comment by JSadowski | Hacker News Reader

I only wish that when Facebook gave away my email when I connected with other sites that they gave away the Facebook email address. As it is, I almost never give permission to sites because most require an email address. I do not wish to share my real email address just to read an article that has shown up on my newsfeed, but would gladly share my @facebook.com email address

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As it is right now, I have a unique email address setup for Facebook on one of my domains. If anyone sends email to it other than Facebook, it gets instantly marked as spam.... I only wonder why I'm giving Facebook a pass and not marking their emails as spam too.

Whenever I come across an interesting "___ read an article" post, I just Google the title of the article.

Try right clicking (or menu key), copy the url, open new tab (CTRL+T), go to location bar (CTRL + L), and paste (CTRL + V). It's the Javascript I think that hijacks the click.

Alternatively, click Cancel when it asks you to add the app, and it will redirect to the original article. I think this is what annoys me most on Facebook.

Try a browser extension similar to what was posted yesterday to automate this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4153772

At least read the first comment to figure out which one to use.

I'm one of a handful of people who don't have a Facebook account but I'll +1 this comment.

I wish they would stop asking for my email password.

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