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This is totally and entirely deliberate on Facebook's part. It's kind of a mix between 'Zuckering' and 'misdirection': http://darkpatterns.org/privacy-zuckering/ - http://darkpatterns.org/misdirection/

They could conceivably do something so that people aren't misled into this thinking, but they're not going to do that.



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