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"the intended effect of giving users more control"

Isn't that a side effect? I would've thought that the intended effect was strengthening Google's position?




You're probably right, but I'm quite happy about this. I had to manually get e-mail addresses from Facebook recently to create a wedding-invitee Google contacts list. And there have been several situations when I needed a number from Facebook and had to use my phone to first log into Facebook to get it.




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