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Liberate your Facebook contacts' email addresses.

14 points by netaddict ↗ HN
Create dummy yahoo account. Log in to it.

Navigate to address.yahoo.com

Navigate to Tools -> Import

Select Facebook icon

Grant permission to import from FB to Yahoo

After import, navigate to Tools-> Export

Source: reddit user sgibson12

8 comments

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jbail
Does this mean Yahoo gets access to all your friends' email addresses?

Or is that a moot point since they are likely drinking from the Facebook data firehose already?

cheald
My money's on "moot point".
whatever_dude
Did this ever work? I can't see how it wouldn't be using the public Facebook API, which doesn't normally include contact's email (not even your own email).
tlack
exactly what i was wondering. the permissions combination makes no sense. perhaps this was implemented by FB without the API?