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Adding services to My Service should open in new tab.
When i try to authenticate Flickr, Vimeo, and Facebook to My Services list they should open in a new tab or a new window where the address bar is visible. I refuse to enter passwords into a window where I can't tell what the URL is. Plus I shouldn't even have to use a Facebook password since you can use an application.
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Inappropriate?Thanks for the suggestion. The reason that we don't just redirect you to these sites whenever we ask you to authenticate is because for some, the workflow is lost. It's hard for us to just toss you over without much of an explanation consistent in the window. If you notice, when the window opens, we're giving you a simple message just to tell you why we need you to authenticate there.
As for asking for the Facebook password, it's a limitation of Facebook. We're using the Facebook API not the platform, so it's not as easy as just adding an app. Because we use a different login process, it actually asks you to log in to your account.
We'll see what we can do about including the address bar or some way that you can verify that it's not a phishing site. I understand your concern for sure.
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Inappropriate?When you add Facebook, it asks you for your password only to log in to your facebook account, not to give socialthing your password. You then add the application just as you would if you were inside Facebook itself.
As for the address bar displaying or not, we had it displayed by default at first, but it just looked silly. We wanted it to look a little more streamlined and for the ones we're using that method with now (flickr, facebook, vimeo), you don't have to scroll the page around at all to get at the login fields.
If you're really suspicious of us trying to phish your password, you can always right-click inside the popup window and select "Page Info" and see the true url of the page. I hope this helps to settle your concerns.
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Inappropriate?Having a tab open next to my current tab does not break the workflow but I can see how it would for some people. Actually having to sign into Facebook when I already am breaks the workflow more for me.
It does seem like all i hear about Facebooks app platform is they won't let you do what you need it to do. -
Inappropriate?From a security point of view I don't think any page asks for a password should hide the address bar. It may make things a little uglier but over all it make the internet a safer place. Personally I can't wait for OAuth and OpenID to be implemented on every web service.
Even if anyone can right-click and see the true url most "average" users won't know they can do that. I'm not concerned with with Socialthing! phishing passwords but if people get used to you using poor security practice the next web service they use might not be as trustworthy.
Thanks for you responses.
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