How does that even make sense given that Facebook clearly gives the opt-out link which is easy to use, and works? I don't believe for a second that you aren't being completely cynical.
How does that even make sense given that Facebook clearly gives the opt-out link which is easy to use, and works? I don't believe for a second that you aren't being completely cynical.
The opt-out is there to boil the frog until they can remove it in the guise of "security". I also agree with bsamuels that it provides a convenient CFAA lever to hit in the event you do run a script they don't like. ("They had to deliberately bypass our 'protection' to paste the javascript into the console!")
Asking targets to first go to the account->security settings to disable the option named "Allow my account to be hijacked if I paste malicious JavaScript", and then to paste this JavaScript, seems to me to be quite clearly less effective than the simpler "paste this JavaScript".
Furthermore I strongly suspect that compromised accounts cause more harm to Facebook's bottom line than users who are exporting their address books. Millions lost every quarter due to fraud vs... what, exactly?