Facebook will let you log in anonymously to third-party apps

Just in case you’ve always been skittish about offering up your Facebook credentials when logging in to an unknown app, the company has just announced at its f8 developer’s conference that it’ll finally let you login to them anonymously. As it suggests, this will let you use the app so that it doesn’t remember your username or password, but it also won’t let you share any info to Facebook. According to the company, this is especially useful when you’re trying out an app for the first time as you learn to see if you like it first before you entrust it with your info.

In case you do want to login with your Facebook account however, Facebook has also introduced more refined privacy settings in its main login interface that’ll let you hand-select exactly the kind of information you wish the app to access. For example, if you’re okay with the app knowing your birthday but not your email address, you can.

Last but not least, Facebook is also introducing a new dashboard that lets you see exactly which apps you access via Facebook Login. You can dial down permission settings from the dashboard or remove them as well. This new app control panel will be rolling out in the next few weeks, while the new login with refined privacy settings will arrive in the coming months. Anonymous login is currently in a testing phase with a few developers, and will be opened up to more in the next few months as well.

Anonymous Login from Facebook on Vimeo.

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