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I'm OK with the personal data but it doesn't seem to be good idea to allow you to access my private repos in Github.

Yeah that makes sense. We've started to switch more towards things like Rescuetime for that information, since the github auth options are very all or nothing.

I wish there were more granular scopes so we could use just the metadata or timestamps, which is all we care about and not nearly as sensitive.

I had only thought about this for Twitter before, but it would be nice if a trustworthy third party could act as a mediator between some of these APIs to give developers the ability to request less information or for users to restrict/filter what personal data is given away. That would help with this github all-or-nothing problem.

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