{"id":65749,"date":"2014-04-30T20:14:23","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T18:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=65749"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:43:16","slug":"facebook-anonymous-logins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-anonymous-logins\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook now allows anonymous logins for third-party apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Facebook tag\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/facebook-tags\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a> is finally allowing users to log into third-party apps anonymously. If you want to try out an app <strong>without sharing your personal information<\/strong>, anonymous login is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Anonymous logins are currently being tested so don&#8217;t expect to see it everywhere just yet. Select partners like <a title=\"Flipboard for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/flipboard.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flipboard<\/a> have the new feature.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65754\" title=\"Facebook Flipboard anonymous login \" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/login3-568x568.png\" alt=\"Facebook Flipboard anonymous login \" width=\"568\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/login3-568x568.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/login3-256x256.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/04\/login3.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By allowing users to log in without sharing any information, users have the ability to try out an app risk free. This is good for app developers since users won&#8217;t be turned off immediately by the traditional Facebook login.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook also updated the way it asks for permissions during log in. Permissions are now displayed as a list with permissions that you can quickly uncheck. This is more transparent than asking for individual permissions.<\/p>\n<p>The new log in will be rolling out over the next few months. Anonymous logins are still being tested with a few select developers but Facebook plans to open it up to more developers soon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Facebook newsroom\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2014\/04\/f8-introducing-anonymous-login-and-an-updated-facebook-login\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-f8-event-the-rumors\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook F8 event: the rumors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-messenger-quick-photo-video-sharing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook Messenger update makes it easy to share photos and video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/facebook-buys-moves-fitness-app\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook buys Moves fitness app, promises not to ruin it<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is finally allowing users to log into third-party apps anonymously. If you want to try out an app without sharing your personal information, anonymous login is perfect. Anonymous logins are currently being tested so don&#8217;t expect to see it everywhere just yet. Select partners like Flipboard have the new feature. By allowing users to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-anonymous-logins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook now allows anonymous logins for third-party apps&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":65754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-65749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330841,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65749\/revisions\/330841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65749"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=65749"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=65749"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=65749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}