On: Facebook is scaring me

[paulsmith]

Is it retroactive to apps that you've installed previously? For example, I signed in with my Facebook account on 3rd party site X and accepted the permissions, and at the time it didn't auto-publish to my feed (or "ticker" or whatever), but now suddenly it will be publishing automatically without my explicit say-so?

[ptarjan → paulsmith]

No. It is a brand new permission that must be granted.

You will know since the dialog will be centered around "Add to Timeline" instead of "Authorize this app".

[X-Istence → paulsmith]

According to some the app will have to ask for those new permissions before it will be allowed to do them, for now.