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> revoked LinkedIn's access to my gmail account

I honestly don't know what people are thinking while enabling that.

No, Seriously?

I don't understand how Gmail allows it. I assume they've gotten enough complaints about it being abused to prohibit or strictly limit access with at least warnings before actions can be taken.

Because the "old way" was worse.

http://blog.codinghorror.com/please-give-us-your-email-passw...

I believe Facebook was the first site to ask users for their email passwords -- and to great effect, at least on their growth metrics.

I tried searching Google for "has facebook ever asked for email account logins and passwords?" and couldn't find any proof. Does anyone have a source for this?

This is what it looked like: http://i.imgur.com/TFQeIBr.png

Whoa, I just looked at the friend finder page and it still does that for some email providers: http://i.imgur.com/bC9xEEM.png

ironic that facebook goes after sites that ask for your facebook password.

Until now I didn't even actually think such people exist. Especially on HN.

Seems a bit snarky?

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