Facebook backs away from asking for some users' email passwords
Mark Zuckerberg's social media giant faced more criticism over the weekend for apparently asking some new users who'd registered with email addresses from sites like Yandex or GMX to enter their personal email passwords during the sign-up process.
As a result of this latest brouhaha, Facebook decided to end the practice, a company spokesperson confirmed to Mashable.
According to Facebook, only a small percentage of users would see this particular screen, because it only showed up for those who signed up with email addresses that don't support OAuth. For the uninitiated, OAuth works with major email services like Gmail to authorize access to sites without requiring the user to enter their email password.
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