<story><title>Note from Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/marknote/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmtew</author><text>Regarding:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.&lt;p&gt;I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, requiring me to create an account to see the content.&lt;p&gt;And not even for Facebook itself, I tried to look at images on Pinterest the other day, and if I followed more than one link, I&amp;#x27;d get an overlay requiring me to login via Facebook.  The site was almost unusable if I wasn&amp;#x27;t logged into Facebook.&lt;p&gt;The only other sites I&amp;#x27;ve visited in a long time, that hide content unless I login, are newspaper sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lucaspiller</author><text>TripAdvisor does something similar, on the mobile web app you can only view the top 3 reviews and need to download their app to see the rest.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sure some exec thought this would be a great idea to get more downloads, but when I&amp;#x27;m out looking for a restaurant I&amp;#x27;m not going to waste my time and data waiting for their 112mb (iOS) app to download. I&amp;#x27;ll just base my decision on the reviews I see or go to one of the many other review sites.</text></comment>
<story><title>Note from Mark Zuckerberg</title><url>http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/04/marknote/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rmtew</author><text>Regarding:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.&lt;p&gt;I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, requiring me to create an account to see the content.&lt;p&gt;And not even for Facebook itself, I tried to look at images on Pinterest the other day, and if I followed more than one link, I&amp;#x27;d get an overlay requiring me to login via Facebook.  The site was almost unusable if I wasn&amp;#x27;t logged into Facebook.&lt;p&gt;The only other sites I&amp;#x27;ve visited in a long time, that hide content unless I login, are newspaper sites.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>evincarofautumn</author><text>Facebook can only really enforce privacy settings on content by authenticating you, unless the content was shared publicly. That’s pretty benign.&lt;p&gt;But I abhor requiring Facebook login to merely &lt;i&gt;view&lt;/i&gt; non-FB sites. It’s antithetical to Facebook’s stated purpose, and I think they ought to make it a TOS violation.</text></comment>